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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- Comrades, camp, and community
- Providence and cheerfulness
- Writing home
- Courage and cowardice
- Desertion and military justice
- Facing the enemy and confronting defeat
- The trophies of victory and the relics of defeat.