The following ten entries have been chosen at random from the "Personal War Sketches" book. The book's entries were numbered, and that number appears with the veteran's name, but the names themselves have been arranged alphabetically. Each selection offers the opportunity to view the facsimile of the veteran's page in the book, or of a transcription of the information. The transcription is far easier to read than the facsimile and, with some (although not all) corrections of spelling or punctuation, is as exact a duplication of the veteran's entry as could be achieved.

Hyperlinks have been established within the text of their accounts to provide historical and contextual information for many of their experiences. After the "Index" page you must use your "back" and "forward" keys to navigate the different sites.

Some of the battles cited by the veterans are actually part of an even larger engagement, or are better known by an entirely different name altogether, and the links that are established reflect these variations. A few were remembered only by the veterans, and the names of others have been distorted by the passage of years; in these cases links could not be made to relevant sites.