This Business of War: Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster

Amidst the din of battle and the chaos of armies on the move, William G. Le Duc of Hastings, Minnesota, writes of the frenzied life of an officer in the Quartermaster Department during the Civil War.

Author: William G. Le Duc
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 11/15/2004
Pages: 167
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.42w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780873515085
ISBN10: 0873515080
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military | United States

About the Author
William G. Le Duc (1823?1917) moved to the Minnesota Territory in 1850. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered into the Quartermaster Department and mustered out four years later as brevet brigadier general. He later served as the U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture from 1877 until 1881 and retired to his home in Hastings, Minnesota. Adam E. Scher is a curator at the Minnesota Historical Society.

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