The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) Shaara Custer ordered a charge of

Custer ordered a charge of one of his regiments and led it into action himself

and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans

LaBarre (degree in history and sociology from Olivet Nazarene University) is head of reference and adult services for a public library in a Chicago suburb

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After the Civil War

The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) Shaara Custer ordered a charge ofHow did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. 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