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1) The soldier's pen: firsthand impressions of the Civil War

Author

Bonner, Robert E

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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They are all infantrymen; none were commissioned officers. One is a German-speaking artist whose sole record is nineteen stunning watercolors that cover a year's enlistment. Another is a free black from Syracuse, New York. Six are from slave states, one of whom was a Unionist. Drawing from the more than 10,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Robert E. Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of sixteen Civil...

2) War stories: suffering and sacrifice in the Civil War North

Author

Clarke, Frances M

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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This "layered, nuanced, and focused study" of Civil War era writings reveals a popular sense of patriotism and hope in the midst of loss (Journal of American History). The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of the immense suffering it inflicted. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism in public or private discourse. In fact, most people portrayed the war...

3) War letters: extraordinary correspondence from American wars

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

4) A people's history of the U.S. military: ordinary soldiers reflect on their experience of war, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan

Author

Bellesiles, Michael A

Pub. Date

2012

Physical Desc

375 pages ; 25 cm

Language

English

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Draws from more than two centuries of soldiers' personal encounters with combat--through excerpts from letters, diaries, memoirs, audio recordings, film, and blogs--to capture the essence of the American military experience firsthand.

5) Outside the wire: American soldiers' voices from Afghanistan

Pub. Date

2013

Physical Desc

xxiv, 148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Language

English

6) Scars to prove it: the Civil War soldier and American fiction

Author

Warren, Craig A

Pub. Date

2009

Physical Desc

x, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Language

English

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This examination of the interaction between fictional representations of the Civil War and the memoirs and autobiographies of Civil War soldiers argues that veterans' accounts taught later generations to represent the conflict in terms of individual experiences, revealing how national identity developed according to written records of the past. The author explores seven popular novels about the Civil War: The Red Badge of Courage, Gone with the Wind,...