The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat
With its relentless bloodshed, devastating firepower, and large-scale battles often fought on impossible terrain, the Civil War was a terrifying experience for a volunteer army. Yet, as Earl Hess shows, Union soldiers found the wherewithal to endure such terrors for four long years and emerge victorious. A vivid reminder that the business of war is killing, Hess's study plunges us into the hellish realms of Civil War combat - a horrific experience crowded with brutalizing sights, sounds, smells, and textures. Drawing extensively upon the letters, diaries, and memoirs of Northern soldiers, Hess reveals their deepest fears and shocks, and also…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7006-1421-9
- EAN: 9780700614219
- Produktnummer: 1684003
- Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kansas
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.0 cm 366 g
- Gewicht: 366
Über den Autor
Earl J. Hess, professor of history at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, is the author of Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union and coauthor of Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West.
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