The Life of Billy Yank - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Billy Yank write by Bell Irvin Wiley. This book was released on 2008-09-01. The Life of Billy Yank available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers' letters and diaries, Wiley explains who these men were and why they fought, how they reacted to combat and the strain of prolonged conflict, and what they thought about the land and the people of Dixie. This fascinating social history reveals that while the Yanks and the Rebs fought for very different causes, the men on both sides were very much the same. "This wonderfully interesting book is the finest memorial the Union soldier is ever likely to have.... [Wiley] has written about the Northern troops with an admirable objectivity, with sympathy and understanding and profound respect for their fighting abilities. He has also written about them with fabulous learning and considerable pace and humor.
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Johnny Reb and Billy Yank write by Alexander Hunter. This book was released on 1905. Johnny Reb and Billy Yank available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Life of Johnny Reb
The Life of Johnny Reb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Johnny Reb write by Bell Irvin Wiley. This book was released on 1993. The Life of Johnny Reb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Bell Irvin Wiley's composite portrait of the rank-and-file Confederate soldier was published in 1943, it was enthusiastically received by professional historians and general readers alike. A half century later, the book still is regarded as one of the best available accounts of the ordinary citizens who made up the Confederate army. The Life of Johnny Reb is not about the battles and skirmishes fought by the Confederate foot soldier. Rather, it is an intimate history of the soldier's daily life - the songs he sang, the foods he ate, the hopes and fears he experienced, the reasons he fought. Wiley has examined countless letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and official records in constructing this frequently poignant, sometimes humorous account of the life of Johnny Reb.
Johnny Reb
Johnny Reb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Johnny Reb write by Alan Archambault. This book was released on 1993-10. Johnny Reb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Details the military and historical elements of the War Between the States.
Rebel Yell
Rebel Yell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebel Yell write by S. C. Gwynne. This book was released on 2014-09-30. Rebel Yell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon—even Robert E. Lee—he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country’s greatest military figures. In April 1862, however, he was merely another Confederate general in an army fighting what seemed to be a losing cause. But by June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western world. Jackson’s strategic innovations shattered the conventional wisdom of how war was waged; he was so far ahead of his time that his techniques would be studied generations into the future. In his “magnificent Rebel Yell…S.C. Gwynne brings Jackson ferociously to life” (New York Newsday) in a swiftly vivid narrative that is rich with battle lore, biographical detail, and intense conflict among historical figures. Gwynne delves deep into Jackson’s private life and traces Jackson’s brilliant twenty-four-month career in the Civil War, the period that encompasses his rise from obscurity to fame and legend; his stunning effect on the course of the war itself; and his tragic death, which caused both North and South to grieve the loss of a remarkable American hero.
