Praise for The Blues in Gray, edited by Roger S. Durham “Lending additional value to the book is Roger S. Durham’s talent as an editor and historian.” —W. Todd Groce, Civil War Book Review “Roger S. Durham has provided us a book that stands out from many of the other edited collections of soldiers’ wartime letters and diaries. . . . Durham succeeds . . . in presenting a remarkably vivid picture of the wartime experiences of Dixon and his comrades.” —Christian B. Keller, Military History of the West “Skillful editing . . . ample and abundant explanatory notes, identifying people, places, and events.” —Choice “Brother against brother”: this cliché of the Civil War experience is brought to life in A Confederate Yankee. Edward William Drummond served in the Confederate army while his brother Clark served for the Union. Yet these brothers came not from Kentucky, Maryland, or Missouri, border states where such conflicts were relatively common. Instead, Ned Drummond came from an abolitionist family in Maine. In1859, at the age of twenty-one, Drummond moved to Savannah, Georgia, and married a local girl; he joined the local Confederate forces shortly after the war began. His journal follows his experiences as a commissary sergeant at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, prior to, during, and following the attack on that post in April 1862. After the fall of Fort Pulaski, he was imprisoned with other Southern troops—first at Governors Island in New York Harbor and later at Johnson’s Island, Ohio, where captivity intensified his loyalty to the Confederacy. Later released in a prisoner-of-war exchange, he returned to Savannah, served in the Confederate army to the end of the war, and eventually reconciled with his Northern family members. Roger S. Durham is director of the Army Heritage Museum at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of The Blues in Gray: The Civil War Journal of William Daniel Dixon and the Republican Blues Daybook. His articles have appeared in Civil War Times Illustrated and Blue and Gray. "Brother against brother": this cliché of the Civil War experience is brought to life in A Confederate Yankee. Edward William Drummond served in the Confederate army while his brother Clark served for the Union. Yet these brothers came not from Kentucky, Maryland, or Missouri, border states where such conflicts were relatively common. Instead, Ned Drummond came from an abolitionist family in Maine. In1859, at the age of twenty-one, Drummond moved to Savannah, Georgia, and married a local girl; he joined the local Confederate forces shortly after the war began. His journal follows his experiences as a commissary sergeant at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, prior to, during, and following the attack on that post in April 1862. After the fall of Fort Pulaski, he was imprisoned with other Southern troops first at Governors Island in New York Harbor and later at Johnson s Island, Ohio, where captivity intensified his loyalty to the Confederacy. Later released in a prisoner-of-war exchange, he returned to Savannah, served in the Confederate army to the end of the war, and eventually reconciled with his Northern family members. Roger S. Durham is director of the Army Heritage Museum at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of The Blues in Gray: The Civil War Journal of William Daniel Dixon and the Republican Blues Daybook. His articles have appeared in Civil War Times Illustrated and Blue and Gray. Monday, June 30th 1862 Everything was very quiet all day, but just after supper an extra came in which was telegraphed through by the New York Tribune to the effect that a general engagement had taken place in front of Richmond and that there was a complete route of the Federals.9 A number of slips were in here and some one in each crowd got up on a stump or some elevation and read the news aloud. The shout that went up would scare the Devil if he had been anywhere about. It was kept up by over Thirteen Hundred voices unceasingly for over an hour. Never did I see such heart-felt gratitude in my life. Men were in tears screaming at the top of their voices with joy. A general rejoicing was kept up until Taps and even after the lights were out some could not restrain themselves. A general jubilee was kept up all the evening in the different quarters. Dixie was sung and danced in all ways imaginable. We had a general collection at our quarters. Six Colonels were present and other officers in proportion. We sang, danced, cheered and felt merry generally. The papers have been kept out of the yard today. No doubt the news was too good to get to our ears. Only one paper came in and that contained nothing but what came in last night. Some inklings got in that McClellan s Army had scattered, some to the Gun Boats and other means of transportation [Tuesday] July 1st Continued while a large part of it is down at Fortress Monroe. They have been dating their letters to the papers ["]6 miles from Richmond.["] Now they have to go at lea