Overview
The Glorious Reality of War is not a biography. Rather, it is a fictionalized account of the experiences of Civil War veteran Charles Wesley Rickard based upon his own recollection recorded in a seventeen page letter to his grown daughter in 1925. He was fifteen when he joined as a fifer because: "They said I was too young for a private and would only muster me in as a fifer as the Col.'s son W.W. Byam had already enlisted as a drummer. (I had never seen a fife) but I could use a rifle, and was bound to go as something."
- | Author: Michael Mendoza
- | Publisher: Authorhouse
- | Publication Date: Oct 27, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 248 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1463468164
- | ISBN-13: 9781463468163
