Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, & Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox

The papers of Major General Orland B. Willcox, one of the most prominent division commanders in the Union army, were recently discovered locked in a trunk in a Washington, D.C. attic. Editor Robert G. Scott has sifted through what is arguably the largest collection of Civil War-related material to surface in 50 years. From Willcoxs childhood in Detroit through his cadet years at West Point and his service in the Mexican, Seminole, and Civil Wars, his story is published here for the first time.