A Yankee Private''s Civil War

Klappentext Moving memoir by a writer who served as a teenaged Union recruit. True tales of punishment, revenge, devotion, and quiet heroism as well as survival methods of the average soldier. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Prologue We March Off to Wipe Treason from the Earth Action at Last: The Bullets Hum Like Bugs Under Fire Every Day for an Age Kennesaw Mountain Was an Awful Place We "Bummers" Go Foraging If You Can't "Pick" Rebs, "Pick" Yanks What an Army Hospital Was Like Discipline Makes War Hell We March from Atlanta to the Sea A Private Cease-Fire along the Chattahoochee "Our Bullets Will Make Sieves of Your Hides . . ." We Head Through South Carolina War Continues to Be Hell We Fight Our Last Big Battle Our Last Long March Proves a Killer Homeward Bound, but Still Fighting

Product details

• Authors: Robert Strong, Robert Hale Strong, Robert Hale/ Halsey Strong
• Assisted by: Ashley Halsey (Editor)
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2013
• EAN: 9780486497136
• ISBN: 978-0-486-49713-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor; Dover Books on Americana; Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor; Dover Books on Americana
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous