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

More Shattered Lives

Splendidly mounted on his favorite mare Virginia

There is also strong evidence that his often-discussed drinking problem affected the outcome of at least one battle

artifacts and hundreds of rare paintings and engravings complete the picture of the Civil War in CIVIL WAR MINUTES - Union

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 More Shattered LivesHow 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