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Life of Billy Yank, The - The Common Soldier of the Union

By: Louisiana State University Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Louisiana State University Press)

Last Stocked on 2/19/2021

Product Info

Title
Life of Billy Yank, The - The Common Soldier of the Union
Category
Author
Bell Irvin Eiley
Publish Year
1993
Pages
454
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1.75"
NKG Part #
2147833969
Type
Hardcover

Description

The Life of Billy Yank is a frank, intimate, and warm study of the Union soldier by one of the most prolific and revered of all Civil War historians. Here, through excerpts from wartime letters and diaries and from other carefully documented research, Bell Irvin Wiley presents an absorbing account of the small and sometimes moving events that made up the daily life of the common Union soldier, a moral but fallible human who could laugh at lewd jokes, be stripped of his courage under fire, or save an entire company from certain death.