The Chronicle of the 656th
by George Byram
In a flash of light, a U.S. Army 656th Regimental Combat Team is transported from a
training exercise in 1944 Tennessee to 1864 where the Northerners and Southerners debate
whether they can or should try to affect the War Between the States.
We could see the cavalry, the caissons and the old-time cannon. The men said we must of
lost our way—and we’d run into a movie outfit makin’ a Civil War picture.
“The Chronicle of the 656th” by George Byram, Playboy,March 1968.