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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
By Adams, Michael C.C.
- ISBN
- 9781421412214 9781421412221
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins
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Starred Review on August 1, 2014 | Social Sciences
Adams (Echoes of War) eschews the celebratory patinas of Civil War memorials to reveal the extremely dark sides of the war. Using soldiers' accounts, the author describes the misery, gore, and futility—"the real war"—that poet Walt Whitman omitted in his works. Adams describes it all: the disease and desperation that led soldiers to have men...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
