Confederate Incognito - The Civil War Reports of Long Grabs, a.k.a. Murdoch John McSween, 26th and 35th North Carolina Infantry - Bog af Murdoch J
Preferring anonymity, Murdoch John McSween wrote over 80 letters under the pseudonym \Long Grabs\ to the Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina), serving as their unofficial war correspondent. For the first two full years of the war, 1862-1863, he was a sometimes drill master at Camp Mangum, in Raleigh, and a wanderer among the regiments in North Carolina and Virginia. What he wrote was varied--the fighting in eastern North Carolina and at Fredericksburg and Petersburg in Virginia, the conditions..
Confederate Incognito - The Civil War Reports of Long Grabs, a.k.a. Murdoch John McSween, 26th and 35th North Carolina Infantry - Murdoch John McS
Preferring anonymity, Murdoch John McSween wrote over 80 letters under the pseudonym \Long Grabs\ to the Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina), serving as their unofficial war correspondent. For the first two full years of the war, 1862-1863, he was a sometimes drill master at Camp Mangum, in Raleigh, and a wanderer among the regiments in North Carolina and Virginia. What he wrote was varied--the fighting in eastern North Carolina and at Fredericksburg and Petersburg in Virginia, the conditions..