Brave Men in Desperate Times: The Lives of Civil War Soldiers

by John McKay and Shannon Lane Hurst

Book Overview

What was it like to be a soldier in combat during the Civil War? What was it like to be a poorly trained, ill-equipped, and un-uniformed militiaman in a state "army" trying to, literally, defend your own home? What was it like to be stuffed into a dank, dark, sweltering, three-foot-diameter iron tube, turning a crank to escape an enemy howling after you, all while thirty feet below the surface of Charleston Harbor? What was it like to be a Creek infantryman,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762723726
• ISBN13: 9780762723720
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"