Twichell's letters to his Connecticut family rank him alongside the Civil War's most literate and insightful firsthand chroniclers of life on the road, in battle, and in camp, as a noncombatant. Twichell writes about politics and slavery and the theological and cultural divide between him and his men.

Steve Courtney (Editor)
STEVE COURTNEY, an independent scholar, has worked for more than three decades as a journalist and has had several positions at the Hartford Courant. He is a coeditor of The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell (Georgia).

Peter Messent (Editor)
PETER MESSENT is the Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature at the University of Nottingham and the author of several books, including Mark Twain and Male Friendship: The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships.