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The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War

The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War

Bonner, Robert E.
Basker, James G.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresCivil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 080908743X
ISBN13: 9780809087433
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: Oct 30 2007
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

They are all infantrymen; none were commissioned officers. One is a German-speaking artist whose sole record is nineteen stunning watercolors that cover a year's enlistment. Another is a free black from Syracuse, New York. Six are from slave states, one of whom was a Unionist. Drawing from the more than 60,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Robert E. Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of sixteen Civil War soldiers, using their own accounts to knit together a ground-level view of the entire conflict. The immediacy of diaries and the intimacy of letters to loved ones accompany the humor of an anonymous cartoonist from Massachusetts, the vivid paintings of Private Henry Berckhoff.

All reproduced for the first time in The Soldier's Pen, the documents and images that Bonner weaves together, providing context and explanation as required, powerfully re-create the day-to-day lives of the soldiers who fought and died for Union and Confederacy. Not since the 2000 publication of Robert Sneden's paintings and papers in Eye of the Storm has a collection of original Civil War documents so evocatively captured the war.

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