Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Artilleryman's Diary
I was a mother's boy and with the exception of three months' district schooling at an aunt's house in Watertown, when a little lad, had never been away from home over night. I had not then and have not since, owned a firearm of any description. As I approach my three-score-and-ten, I can say that I have never sighted a gun, or pulled the trigger on any thing smaller than a cannon, and that only when or'dered.
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