Civil War SoldiersViking, 1988 - 274 pages Drawing from unpublished letters and journals of soldiers, Reid Mitchell creates a rich social portrait of the Americans who fought in the Civil War and how their conviction, hopes, and prejudices were often starkly belied by the unseemly, contradictory reality of war. |
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WARS FOR FREEDOM | 1 |
ENEMIES AND SAVAGES | 24 |
THE CONFEDERATE EXPERIENCE | 148 |
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