This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War - Paperback

by James M. Scythes (Author)

This book presents a firsthand account of the experiences of seventeen-year-old Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell during Major General George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. Howell's story offers the reader a unique perspective of a young man coming of age in the Union army during the Civil War.

Author Biography

James Scythes is instructor of history at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.