Under Fire: An Experience in the Civil War

Annie P. Marmion celebrated her ninth birthday just a month before the outbreak of the Civil War. The daughter of the town doctor in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), she kept a journal of her experiences during the war. Her words give a unique perspective of the hardships civilians endured in a town that changed hands at least eight times before the war’s end. A nephew, William Vincent Marmion, Jr., compiled and edited her writings and published them in 1959 in the booklet Under Fire: An Experience in the Civil War. This reprint by the Harpers Ferry Park Association includes annotations and vivid watercolor paintings commissioned by the National Park Services that enhance the narrative of a child living with war on her doorstep.  

Publisher: Harpers Ferry Park Association. Paperback, 29 pages. Measures 6" x 9" x 0.125". Weighs 3 oz.