Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Born in Germany in 1822, John Henry Otto served in the Prussian army until the early 1850s when he came to New York. In 1862 he enlisted in the Union army in command of his company from the Battle of Chickamauga until the close of the war and was engaged in many of the major battles and campaigns on the western front. He also accompanied General Sherman in the march through Georgia and the Carolinas. Otto kept a journal, and his memoirs paint a vivid picture of the life of a common soldier and of a line officer at the company level during the Civil War.Otto, John Henry is the author of 'Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry', published 2004 under ISBN 9780873387996 and ISBN 0873387996.