“If a person were to ask me what I saw South, I should tell him stink weed, sand, rattlesnakes, and alligators. To tell the honest truth, our boys out on picket look sharper for snakes than they do for rebels.” American Civil WarUs Civil WarThe SouthSouthern United StatesYankee Soldiers Book:On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front Source: On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front