Alan D. Gaff is an independent scholar and the author of several books, including the bestselling Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir, Baseball's First Superstar; The Lost Life Story of Christy Mathewson; Field of Corpses: Arthur St. Clair and the Death of an American Army; Blood in the Argonne: The "Lost Battalion" in World War I and Scalp Hunter: Major Robert Rogers and his Rogue Rangers. Donald H. Gaff, Professor and Archaeologist at the University of Northern Iowa, is co-editor of Amid the Ruins; Damon Runyon World War I Reports from the American Trenches and Occupied Europe; From the Halls of the Montezumas: Mexican War Dispatches of James L. Freaner and Ordered West: The Civl War Exploits of Charles A. Curtis.

“Thousands of veterans North and South wrote accounts of their Civil War service, hundreds of which have found their way into print over the past century and a half. Very few did a better job than George Kimball, an enlisted member of the Webster Regiment (12th Massachusetts Volunteers). Kimball’s recollections of his three action-filled years in the Army of the Potomac are engagingly written, richly descriptive, unflinchingly honest, and emotionally compelling. Diligently edited by Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff, A Corporal’s Story is a gem of its kind, deserving of a place in every library of soldiers’ reminiscences.”—Edward G. Longacre, author of Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A. “George Kimball—a brave, solid soldier of the Twelfth Massachusetts, as well as a gifted observer and writer—fought in some of the worst battles of the American Civil War. A Corporal’s Story, his recollections of the war, offers a detailed and compelling picture of life as a common soldier in one of the famous regiments of the Army of the Potomac.”—D. Scott Hartwig, author of To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of 1862

Alan D. Gaff is an independent scholar and the author of several books, including the bestselling Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir, Baseball's First Superstar; The Lost Life Story of Christy Mathewson; Field of Corpses: Arthur St. Clair and the Death of an American Army; Blood in the Argonne: The "Lost Battalion" in World War I and Scalp Hunter: Major Robert Rogers and his Rogue Rangers. Donald H. Gaff, Professor and Archaeologist at the University of Northern Iowa, is co-editor of Amid the Ruins; Damon Runyon World War I Reports from the American Trenches and Occupied Europe; From the Halls of the Montezumas: Mexican War Dispatches of James L. Freaner and Ordered West: The Civl War Exploits of Charles A. Curtis.

“Thousands of veterans North and South wrote accounts of their Civil War service, hundreds of which have found their way into print over the past century and a half. Very few did a better job than George Kimball, an enlisted member of the Webster Regiment (12th Massachusetts Volunteers). Kimball’s recollections of his three action-filled years in the Army of the Potomac are engagingly written, richly descriptive, unflinchingly honest, and emotionally compelling. Diligently edited by Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff, A Corporal’s Story is a gem of its kind, deserving of a place in every library of soldiers’ reminiscences.”—Edward G. Longacre, author of Fitz Lee: A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A. “George Kimball—a brave, solid soldier of the Twelfth Massachusetts, as well as a gifted observer and writer—fought in some of the worst battles of the American Civil War. A Corporal’s Story, his recollections of the war, offers a detailed and compelling picture of life as a common soldier in one of the famous regiments of the Army of the Potomac.”—D. Scott Hartwig, author of To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of 1862