View from the Ground
Civil War scholars have long used soldiers'' diaries and correspondence to flesh out their studies of the conflict''s great officers, regiments, and battles. However, historians have only recently begun to treat the common Civil War soldier''s daily life as a worthwhile topic of discussion in its own right. The View from the Ground reveals the beliefs of ordinary men and women on topics ranging fr...
Civil War scholars have long used soldiers'' diaries and correspondence to flesh out their studies of the conflict''s great officers, regiments, and battles. However, historians have only recently begun to treat the common Civil War soldier''s daily life as a worthwhile topic of discussion in its own right. The View from the Ground reveals the beliefs of ordinary men and women on topics ranging fr...