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The War for the Common Soldier

How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies

By Peter S. Carmichael

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Publish Date

Dec 06, 2018

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Language

eng

Pages

408

Description:

"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--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"--