The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) Material:Paperback Professor Varney sheds new light

Professor Varney sheds new light on what really happened on some of the Civil War’s most important battlefields

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guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world

The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) Material:Paperback Professor Varney sheds new lightHow did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. 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