Carmichael, Peter S., <br/><br/>
The war for the common soldier :  how men thought, fought, and survived in Civil War armies / 
Peter S. Carmichael. 
 - Chapel Hill :  The University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - The Littlefield history of the Civil War era .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Comrades, camp, and community --  Providence and cheerfulness --  Writing home --  Courage and cowardice --  Desertion and military justice --  Facing the enemy and confronting defeat --  The trophies of victory and the relics of defeat. 
<br/><br/> "Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469643106 9781469643113 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Army --Military life.<br/>Confederate States of America. Army --Military life.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E607  / .W374 2018