Civil War amateur historian for over 35 years. The major influence in my interest in our Civil War and history in general was my oldest brother Ray Filegar, and the fact I grew up during the cold war. I now present, in first person, the life of a Union Soldier, 1862-1865, that fought with the Twentieth Maine Regiment. His name: Nathan Small Clark. A lot of my writing is created through this citizen soldiers 'mind'. Though I have never met him in the physical sense, I have through the writng in his diary.Also, I have spent many hours on Civil War battlefields, the last 35 years, from Gettysb more...