Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

by Carlton McCarthy

Book Overview

This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809442450
• ISBN13: 9780809442454
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Time Life Medical
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Nice account of soldier's life...

Nicely paced, reader-friendly account of the "minutiae" involved in the life of a Confederate soldier - more specifically, as a member of the Army of Northern Virginia. Along with Billings' Northern perspective as seen in Hardtack and Coffee, these two books tell just about all the "ins and outs" of the tedium and horror of war.

Great History You Won't Get Anywhere Else!

A quick, really great read on the everyday life of the Confederate soldier in the War for Southern Independence. The Whats, Whens, Hows, and Whys of the survival of the common man in the Army of Northern Virginia told in a very readable manner. Anyone interested in "the War" shouldn't go without reading this one! Too bad there isn't a hardback!