As You May Never See Us Again: The Civil War Letters of George and Walter Battle, 4th North Carolina Infantry

A collection of letters written by two teenagers during the Civil War. George and Walter Battle join the 4th North Carolina Infantry against their minister-father's wishes by changing the ages on their birth certificates. In letters home to their mother, George and Walter give a moving account of life on the front lines for the "underage" Confederate soldier--the deprivations, the hardships, and the horror. Mere boys when they join the fighting, both "come of age" in this true story about the life of a soldier during the War Between the States