Böcker av Bell Irvin Wiley

The Life of Billy Yank is a frank, intimate, and warm study of the Union soldier by one of the most prolific and revered of all Civil War historians. Here, through excerpts from wartime letters and diaries and from other carefully documented research, Bell Irvin Wiley presents an absorbing account of the small and sometimes moving events that made up the daily life of the common Union soldier, a moral but fallible human who could laugh at lewd jokes, be stripped of his courage under fire, or save an entire company from certain death.

?Wiley uses the published and unpublished writings of Southern women to offer the reader insights into their personalities and attitudes.... This should be a nice addition to Civil War and women's history collections.?-Library Journal