"Major Thomas W. Osborn was chief of artillery in the Federal Army of the Tennessee. His journal an letters were written during Sherman's campaigns from Atlanta to Savannah and through the Carolinas. Osborn's eyewitness account of the Civil War is significant particularly for its dispassionate social commentary and for his insights into General W.T. Sherman and O.O. Howard. The major was, as his remarks attest, a keen observer of officers, of the...