Full name: Tenting Tonight: The Soldier's Life

Author: James I. Robertson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780809447367 0809447363

This was another unique addition to the Time-Life Civil War series. I felt this book showed both the human spirit and human suffering that cost the lives of so many. This book specifically examines the life of the soldier on both sides. I learned women masqueraded as men to serve their nation (pg. 27), Native Americans volunteered to fight (pg. 31), and blacks answered the call to arms in the war between the States. Camp life (Chapter 2) was examined at great length and gave a colorized photographic segment on uniforms, and gear worn by both sides, pg. 72-77. The ravages of war, battlefield surgical tools, and life of POWs are in this book.There are lots of photographs, family portraits, and sketches portraying the life of the fighting men. I would highly recommend this book to readers of the American Civil War. Thanks! Similar books: Hard Tack and Coffee by John D. Billings The Golden Book of the Civil War by Charles Flato The life of Johnny Reb, the common soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley The Civil War by Robert Paul Jordan Pursuit to Appomattox by Jerry Korn The Orphan Brigade by William C. Davis Mosby's Rangers by Jeffry D. Wert Fields of Honor by Edwin C. Bearss An Honorable Defeat by William C. Davis Eye of the Storm by Robert Knox Sneden The Long Surrender by Burke Davis Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman Reminiscences of the Civil War by John Brown Gordon Life of Billy Yank by Bell Irvin Wiley This Mighty Scourge by James M. McPherson The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery