Three Years in the Sixth Corps

As the train pulls away from Saratoga, a thousand soldiers cheer back at the friends they may never see again—and the hills carry both cries long after the village disappears.

George T. Stevens begins in November 1861, when the Seventh-seventy-seventh New York Volunteers leave home for the Army of the Potomac, sure the rebellion will soon be swept away. Their first miles bring cold rain, a filthy, airless boat, sick men, and the fear of what waits on southern battlefields; then Philadelphia welcomes them with warm food and beds for the ill. Stevens writes of a regiment caught between patriotic hope and the hard realities of soldiering, its men bound together by the journey and the people they leave behind. How will that bright first confidence fare when the war begins to test it?

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