In Her Hour of Sore Distress and Peril: The Civil War Diaries of John P. Reynolds, Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

'Talented and perceptive writer John Perkins Reynolds of the 'Salem Zouaves' (Company I, Eighth Massachusetts Infantry), left behind a unique record of important events of one company's service during early months of the Civil War. His detailed personal diary documents his company's hourly activities each day, forming a rare chronicle of a Union 'three-month' unit'--