"Mathew Woodruff was a frontiersman by adoption, and] as a sergeant in the21st Missouri Infantry, he participated in all the major campaigns of the western theater. In June 1865, following a furlough home, this veteran of twenty-two rejoined his regiment for occupational duty along theGulf coast of Mississippi and Alabama. The journal spans the remaining period of 1865 only, yet it is a uniqueand revealing chronicle of life in the victorious federal forces." Civil War History "The brief daily entries, with all the misspellings andgrammatical mistakes, present an insight into the...
"Mathew Woodruff was a frontiersman by adoption, and] as a sergeant in the21st Missouri Infantry, he participated in all the major campaigns of the w...