TY - SER KW - Pennsylvania Railroad KW - American Civil War KW - Brownsville Grays KW - 37th Pennsylvania Infantry AU - A. F. [Ashbel Fairchild] Hill AB - A novelized Civil War memoir about the Brownsville Grays of the 37th Pennsylvania Infantry, which trained in Oakmont and the Strip District before heading south to battle the Confederacy. C1 - 1861-4 C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Oakmont; Camp Wright; Pittsburgh; Strip District; Camp Wilkins; Fayette County; Brownsville C4 - War; Literary; Biographical; Roman à clef; Adventure CY - Philadelphia LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - A novelized Civil War memoir about the Brownsville Grays of the 37th Pennsylvania Infantry, which trained in Oakmont and the Strip District before heading south to battle the Confederacy. PB - John E. Potter PP - Philadelphia PY - 1864 RN - A. F. Hill (1842-76), born near the Monongahela River in German Twp., Fayette County, served in the 37th Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War and lost a leg at the Battle of Antietam. After the war, he wrote professionally for newspapers in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Uniontown, Fayette County. He also wrote poetry and several books, of which the best known is a black comedy about his post-traumatic stress: John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch, or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-Legged Soldier after the War (1869). Hill married in San Francisco and returned with his wife to Uniontown, where he died November 7, 1876. He is buried at the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Masontown, Fayette County. EP - 412 p. TI - Our Boys: The Personal Experiences of a Soldier in the Army of the Potomac ER -