Today Disunion begins an occasional series about the lives of individual soldiers during the Civil War — North and South, black and white. Compiled and written by Ronald S. Coddington, author of "Faces of the Civil War" and "Faces of the Confederacy," the series will give readers a sense of the war beyond the headlines and history books, a sense of what it meant to the millions of ordinary men who entered into, and often never left, that great American conflict...