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"Dear Friends at Home" is an important primary source that sheds light on Union engineering activities during the Civil War as well as the viewpoint of a volunteer engineer who served as a sergeant and company-grade officer.

BLACK IRISH is a collection of poetry and narrative verse by actor, playwright, filmmaker and novelist Roger Floyd. Dark. Disturbing. Surreal and profound. It is the work of an often times madman. It is the verse of a wild and vibrant imagination. It is the verse of a man purged with fire, a man once broken but pieced together again through the power of words.

Union forces in the Civil War needed far more Engineers than the Regular Army could furnish. Volunteer Engineers, who entered the Army for wartime service only, supported operations just as did the regulars. Their contributions ranged from constructing pontoon bridges under fire to building field fortifications for siege operations. Thomas Owen's letters and diary reveal the life and duties of a volunteer Engineer who served as a sergeant and company-grade officer. These writings convey his reactions to the extreme conditions of wartime, from the rigors of combat to the boredom of camp life....