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Equally compelling are his thoughts about home—including his anxiety over his separation from his family as well as his fury at his brothers, who had bought their way out of military service. Bringing that view of the home front full circle, a concluding chapter by editors Jedediah Mannis and Galen Wilson describes the difficulties that Miller’s widow, Susan, encountered after the war, especially in her dealings with the Pension Office.  Bound to Be a Soldier presents a common man’s critique of military policy and civilian society during wartime in a rough-hewn style that breathes life into historic events.  The Editors: Jedediah Mannis is a Massachusetts attorney who serves as executive director of the Shelter Island Fund, a non-profit environmental organization.   Galen R. 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Like many southern gentlemen, Clark was opposed to secession but could not desert his family and friends. Enlisting as a first lieutenant in the Confederacy's Third Tennessee Infantry  Regiment, he spent his first night as a soldier on the bloody battlefield of Manasses.  Clark's recollections of Manasses and the battles and skirmishes that followed pinpoint his regiment's activities in previously undocumented areas while providing valuable analyses of battles from a participant's point of view and discussing the irony many soldiers felt when battle pitted them against men they had known before the war in business, politics, and society.  Captured after the battle of Morristown in the fall of 1864, Clark was jailed in Knoxville, then under Federal control. 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