The war for the common soldier : how men thought, fought, and survived in Civil War armies /
Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience, including the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments and the frustrati...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
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| Summary: | Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience, including the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. |
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| Physical Description: | 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469643090 146964309X |