An Artilleryman's Diary

An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones plunges listeners into the smoke, grit, and steady resolve of a Union artilleryman during the American Civil War. This evocative Civil War memoir follows Jones’s enlistment with the Sixth Wisconsin Battery and his day-by-day diary entries through campaigns on the Mississippi and Yazoo, the siege of Vicksburg, the Chattanooga and Atlanta operations, winter quarters, Nashville, and the long march home. Jones combines tactical detail about artillery service with candid reflections on camaraderie, hardship, leadership, and the human cost of war, offering both vivid battlefield scenes and quieter moments of camp life. As a primary-source wartime diary, it illuminates military operations, soldier morale, and the broader historical landscape of the Union war effort without fictional embellishment. Rich in period perspective and lived experience, the narrative serves as both a memoir and a piece of military history. Ideal for Civil War enthusiasts, students of American history, reenactors, and listeners who value firsthand accounts, this audiobook brings an intimate, ground-level view of 19th-century warfare and the men who endured it.