Embattled Courage

The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War

Description

Linderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now.

About the author(s)

Gerald Linderman is a professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the acclaimed Mirror of War.

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