The Life of Johnny Reb
The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (Conflicting Worlds
by Bell Irvin Wiley
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appears in Civil War, History, and Nonfiction.
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 ...
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