American Civil War For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War HC

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American Civil War For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War HC:
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Better than very good 2nd printing of hardcover with jacket. Strong, solid binding, clean text. McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities, and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war. Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson\'s Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called \"history writing of the highest order.\" For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson\'s masterful prose and the soldiers\' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it.