Soldier's Pen Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War

Name: Soldier's Pen Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780809087433

ISBN-10: 080908743X

ISBN-13: 9780809087433

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Authors: Robert E. Bonner, James G. Basker, Robert E. Bonenr

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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 60,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Robert E. Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of sixteen Civil War soldiers, using their own accounts to knit together a ground-level view of the entire conflict. The immediacy of diaries and the intimacy of letters to loved ones accompany the humor of an anonymous cartoonist from Massachusetts, the vivid…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

James G. Basker is the Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University, and President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.



Foreword


The Penmen


Introduction: "Glimpses of Many Things Untold"



The Tender Lines of War



Army Life and the Comforts of Home



Combat, Bloodshed, and the Traces of Battle



The Union Divided?



The Fading Gray



Bonds Broken, Bonds Restored



Relies of War


Index of Source Material from the Gilder Lehrman Collection


Acknowledgments