The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) PCN Strike the Tent: Civil War

Strike the Tent: Civil War Songs & Campfire Melodies

Gottfried’s efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War’s Eastern Theater

I knew that he only said what he did to let me know that he was off

Sharpsburg (where Branch was killed)

retired Chief Historian

The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) PCN Strike the Tent: Civil WarHow did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the