The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) Material:Paperback The reader is transported to

The reader is transported to the battlefield by the photographs and through the analysis of the photographs to the battle itself

But Grant’s war of attrition began to take its toll in a more insidious way

acutely aware that he must bring all his skills to bear on a fight his side must win

Forrest so outdistanced the rest of the Confederate attackers that he found himself surrounded by Union troops

Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) is America's best-known sculptor of public monuments Monument Man is the first comprehensive biography of this fascinating figure and his illustrious career

The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) Material:Paperback The reader is transported toHow 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