Amidst the din of battle and the chaos of armies on the move, William G. Le Duc of Hastings, Minnesota, writes of the frenzied life of an officer in the Quartermaster Department during the Civil War.
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978-0-87351-508-5 (9780873515085)
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William G. Le Duc (1823?1917) moved to the Minnesota Territory in 1850. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered into the Quartermaster Department and mustered out four years later as brevet brigadier general. He later served as the U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture from 1877 until 1881 and retired to his home in Hastings, Minnesota. Adam E. Scher is a curator at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Family Matters; Growing Up in Ohio; Farming and College; Frontier Travel and Henry Clay; Westward to Minnesota Territory; The Crystal Palace Exhibition; Indian Trouble in St. Paul; Railroads and Land; Preparations for War; The Chickahominy Campaign; The Life of a Quartermaster; Retreat with the Army of the Potomac; With the Eleventh Corps; At Bridgeport; With General Hooker; On to Atlanta; The Beginning oft he End; A Western Trip; At Brainerd, Minnesota; Commissioner of Agriculture; At Work as Commissioner.
