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Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming Civil War tale bound to become an American holiday classicIn the winter of 1862, during the seemingly endless nightmare of the Civil War, a small miracle occurred. Just after Christmas, on the eve of the bloody battle of Stones River in Tennessee, the Union and Confederate armies set up camp within shouting distance of one another. To raise their spirits, they began a volley of patriotic tunes-"Yankee Doodle" drowned out by "Dixie."...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
They are all infantrymen; none were commissioned officers. One is a German-speaking artist whose sole record is nineteen stunning watercolors that cover a year's enlistment. Another is a free black from Syracuse, New York. Six are from slave states, one of whom was a Unionist. Drawing from the more than 60,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Robert E. Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of sixteen Civil...
Author
Publisher
Silverleaf Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War years were filled with intense enought conflict and political upheaval, but what were they actually like for the soldiers who fought in the war? Learn about the men and their lives...and participate in more than 25 activities that will make the Civil War come alive for the reader..."--Cover back.