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Title: The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat (Modern War Studies) by Earl J. Hess ISBN: 0-7006-0837-0 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Get inside the mind of the Union Soldier!
Comment: Author Earl Hess has defined the Union soldier in this interesting book covering many topics. Hess has taken a fresh look at soldiering and has brought the psychology of the soldier mind together with insightful material. Topics facing soldiers such as enlisting, fighting battles, defining courage, knowing war, memories and the daily grind of war has been presented in a great format. Hess adds quotes from soldiers that enhance the chapters and bring things to a closer personal level. Hess also explains how soldiers coped after the war and how they filtered back into society. This an excellent book that gets into the psychological mind set of the Union soldier and is not a book like Hardtack Coffee that covers more material topics. To understand the Union soldier this a great reference tool that helps get inside of the minds of these fighting men. 5 STARS!
Rating: 4
Summary: Vivid Details about the Northern Soldiers Combat experience
Comment: In this rather short book, Earl Hess goes into detail about what combat was like for the Northern Solier in the American Civil War. Using mainly letters written by veterans, the book explains why most Northern soldiers were able to endure the horrors of Civil War combat, and how this experience shaped their perspective of the conflict.
I found the book fascinating. It really gets into the personal history of the war, as seen through the eyes of thos who fought it. If you are looking for a glimpse into the intensity of Civil War fighting, this book will open your eyes to what it may have been like. The only reason I did not give this book five stars is that the writing is rather dry, and merely factual during certain chapters.
I recommend this book for anyone interested in learning more about the Civil War combat experience of the Northern Soldier. It was gruesome, noisy, confusing, exhilirating, and harrowing. How so many were able to endure this hardship and keep fighting until the war was won still remains somewhat of a mystery to me.
Rating: 3
Summary: Very interesting study, but contains doubtful analysis
Comment: This is the sort of historical writing that I really find interesting: the study of mentalities among a group of people engaged in highly stressful activity. Hess does wonderfully at describing what battle was like and setting forth the ways in which it challenged men's courage. I found, however, that some of his analysis seemed forced. He makes statements which are not really supported by his sources. For example, he makes the claim that veteran soldiers were more likely to call truces with the enemy to trade coffee and tobacco and so on because they felt more self-confident than new recruits. But in fact, other sources I have read indicate that such truces were more common early in the war, before the soldiers got to taking it all so seriously. In other places, too, Hess makes claims about what was going through the soldiers' minds without really supporting these claims with quotes. He gives an interesting analysis of postwar viewpoints and the way veterans psychologically justified the hell they had gone through. I do wish that he or a colleague would write a similar study of Confederate soldiers, particularly on postwar viewpoints, since that would seem to be where they would differ the most.
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Title: The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War by David J Eicher ISBN: 0684849453 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Retreat to Victory?: Confederate Strategy Reconsidered (American Crisis Series) by Robert G. Tanner ISBN: 084202882X Publisher: Scholarly Resources Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 0395867614 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Embattled Courage : The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War by Gerald Linderman ISBN: 0029197619 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 17 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command by Edward Hagerman ISBN: 0253207150 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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