Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War
by Gerald Linderman
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Contrasts the differences between the expectations and experience of battle for Civil War soldiers, and discusses the concepts of courage and honor.Tags
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This civil war book is unique, in that we see the war from the perspective of those who were involved. Linderman includes excerpts from letters and diaries of the men who fought this horrible war. The reader gets a true feel for what this period in history must have been like for the men and women who lived through it.
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- Important events
- American Civil War (1861 | 1865); Battle of Shiloh (1862-04-06 | 1862-04-07)
- Epigraph
- Nowhere do events correspond less to men's expectations than in war.
-Livy, History of Rome, XXX.20 - Dedication
- For Barbara
- First words
- Every war begins as one war and becomes two, that watched by civilians and that fought by soldiers.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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