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In 1884; when Albert O. Marshall published Army Life; a memoir of his service as a private in the Thirty-Third Illinois Regiment; twenty years had passed since his 1864 discharge. Marshall left the journal untouched at publication; and today it is a journal that is rare in what it is not. This memoir is not a complete story of the Thirty-Third (known as the “Normal Regiment” because many of its soldiers were from Illinois State Normal University); nor is it a complete roster of regiment members; nor a list of killed and wounded.Army Life is not; even; a purely military account written from an officer’s point of view. It is the story of a twenty-year-old private whose engaging writing belies his age but also allows his youth to shine through. Marshall tells of the battles he fought and the games he played; of his friends; fellow soldiers; and officers; and of the regiment’s activities in Missouri and Arkansas; at Vicksburg; and in Louisiana and on the Texas Gulf Coast. Enhanced with careful editing and thorough annotations; this journal Marshall carried faithfully to every mustering out is a rich and important Civil War memoir.