More than 2.8 million men served in the Union army from 1861-1865, yet you will not be surprised to know that only 3% or about 75,000 were “regulars,” who were placed into 30 regiments (note over 2,000 regiments were created). (1) With that in mind I highly recommend you check out “Ten years in the ranks, U. S. army” by Augustus Meyers, (1914). Meyers, somehow at the age of 13…