From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton's Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment (Dewitt Clinton Beckwith - UA) gettysburg history Unbeknownst to most students of

Unbeknownst to most students of the war

the American public was stunned

and the enemy blocked the horseman’s direct route back to the Confederate army

From the first crossing of the Potomac River to the intense fighting on July 1

From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton's Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment (Dewitt Clinton Beckwith - UA) gettysburg history Unbeknownst to most students ofby Dewitt Clinton Beckwith (Author), Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr. Thirty years after the Civil War, the 121st New York Volunteers (Upton's Regulars) finally published a history of their regiment. Its stated author was a man who had not served directly with the 121st but had based the book on a memoir written by a survivor who had enlisted at age 15. That boy, Dewitt Clinton Beckwith, published his memoir thirty years after the war in an obscure upstate