Well at This Time:: The Civil War Diaries and Army Convalescence Saga of Farmboy Ephraim Miner

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A new book chronicles the wartime diaries and mis-adventures of Ephraim Miner, a Western Pennsylvania farmer boy whose eardrums were shattered and his feet frostbitten at the Battle of Fredericksburg. He spent more than 2 1/2 years languishing in the Armys ill-prepared health care and convalescent system, bouncing from Washington to Baltimore, New York, Indiana and Ohio. In the process, he crosses paths with Civil War nurse Walt Whitman (who was in the habit of giving cheap blank diaries to soldiers), President Lincoln (at the only battle he ever watched in person), and Generals George McClellan (who shook the soldiers' hands) and George Meade (who meted out punishment to Ephraims regiment for insubordination). Americas Civil War says the book "Walks readers through Ephraims experience Ephraim is real to the reader." The Civil War News notes that there is " hardly a page where there are not one or more illustrations, such as photographs, period woodcuts or reproductions of Ephraim Miners diaries." The Western Pennsylvania History magazine of the Senator John Heinz History Center, an associate of the Smithsonian Institution, says "One will not find stirring accounts of battle, but entries that describe day-to-day life of a young man who continued to serve his country despite being hobbled by illness and a battle injury