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The War In Their Words: “On Account of a Bug”

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Multi-legged dangers lurked in camp and field ivil War soldiers expected to duck bullets and bomb bursts. But Ohioan William W. Richardson discovered that a simple crawling creature could also lay a fighting man low, and even cause a lifetime of torment, when a bug “invaded” his ear during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. Richardson was …

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