A semi-biographical story which draws on the author's experience in the Civil War. The narrator volunteers with "Todd's Ninety," a non-regimental company of Union soldiers from New York which sees action at Gettysburg. The book is dedicated to the memory of Miss Jenny Wade who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. The first half of the book collects scenes from the narrator's early life growing up on a 120-acre farmstead in a small town near Albany, New York, to which he returns following the war.
The autobiography and diary of Mr James Melvill, Minister of Kilrenny, in Fife, and Professor of Theology in the University of St Andrews. With a continuation of the diary. Edited from manuscripts in the libraries of the Faculty of advocates and University of Edinburgh by Robert Pitcairn, Esq.