Elisha Hunt Rhodes was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, in 1842. He enlisted as a private in the Union Army in 1861. Four years later, he left the army as a twenty-three-year-old colonel, having fought in every campaign of the Army of the Potomac from Bull Run to Appomattox. After the war, he returned to his home state of Rhode Island and became a successful businessman. He remained active in military and veteran affairs, serving as the Brigadier General of the Brigade of Rhode Island Militia from 1879 to 1893 and acting as president of the Second Rhode Island Volunteers and Battery A Veterans Association. Rhodes died at the age of seventy-five on January 14, 1917.
"One of the best firsthand accounts I have read of campaigning and
combat in the Civil War." -- James M. McPherson, author of Battle
Cry of Freedom
"One of the most remarkable diaries I have ever read. Elisha Hunt
Rhodes saw action from Bull Run to Appomattox and somehow survived,
and his diary came to represent, better than any other I found, the
spirit of the Union soldier." -- Ken Burns, director and writer of
The Civil War
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