"Reminiscences of a Private by Frank M. Mixson, Company "E" 1st S. C. Vols. (Hagood's)" by Frank M. Mixson offers a great point of view from a teenager in the height of the Civil War. Told through personal experience, this is a simply written memoir that captures what war was like for the young men involved in it. The campaigns he was involved in, the sadness, the triumph, it's all captured in vivid and heartfelt details.