Best of
American-Civil-War

1951

Mr. Lincoln's Army


Bruce Catton - 1951
    McClellan.

The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union


Bell Irvin Wiley - 1951
    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.