All for the Union

All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes& 160;enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in& 160;The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches short rations fear and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving all for the union. Language: English