Full name: Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union

Author: Bell Irvin Wiley Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780807133750 0807133752

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. Similar books: Fields of Honor by Edwin C. Bearss Return to Bull Run by John J. Hennessy Mosby's Rangers by Jeffry D. Wert The life of Johnny Reb, the common soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley The hard hand of war by Mark Grimsley Campaigning with Grant by Horace Porter To Appomattox by Burke Davis Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears The Civil War by Robert Paul Jordan To the Gates of Richmond by Stephen W. Sears Pursuit to Appomattox by Jerry Korn Battle at Bull Run by William C. Davis Hard Tack and Coffee by John D. Billings Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman Autumn of Glory by Thomas Lawerence Connelly