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- Author: Gaff
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- ISBN-10: 0253212944
- ISBN-13: 9780253212948
- Format: 16.1 x 23.6 x 3.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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" . . . an excellent unit history of a renowned regiment . . . " --The Civil War News
" . . . American history on a human scale . . . " --Kirkus Reviews
"The author gives some of the best descriptions of the daily life of a Civil War soldier that can be found anywhere." --Library Journal
"On Many a Bloody Field is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship and painstaking historical research." --The Bookwatch
". . . meticulously researched, day-by-day history of Company B, 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment. . . . [T]he real essence of this book is its detailed attention to the common soldiers. . . . [A]s a representative of its genre, it probably is without many peers." --Journal of Southern History
On Many a Bloody Field follows one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations--Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade, in a vivid account of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Alan Gaff follows the men from recruitment through mustering out, from the tedium of camp to the excitement of battle. A close-up view of the experience of war, told from the soldiers' perspective, often in the words of the men themselves.
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- Author: Gaff
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- ISBN-10: 0253212944
- ISBN-13: 9780253212948
- Format: 16.1 x 23.6 x 3.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
" . . . an excellent unit history of a renowned regiment . . . " --The Civil War News
" . . . American history on a human scale . . . " --Kirkus Reviews
"The author gives some of the best descriptions of the daily life of a Civil War soldier that can be found anywhere." --Library Journal
"On Many a Bloody Field is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship and painstaking historical research." --The Bookwatch
". . . meticulously researched, day-by-day history of Company B, 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment. . . . [T]he real essence of this book is its detailed attention to the common soldiers. . . . [A]s a representative of its genre, it probably is without many peers." --Journal of Southern History
On Many a Bloody Field follows one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations--Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade, in a vivid account of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Alan Gaff follows the men from recruitment through mustering out, from the tedium of camp to the excitement of battle. A close-up view of the experience of war, told from the soldiers' perspective, often in the words of the men themselves.
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