The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) PCN Gottfried’s efforts to study and

Gottfried’s efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War’s Eastern Theater

Cripple Creek/Old Joe Clarke/The Girl I Left Behind Me (Virginia Reel Medley)

Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church

Joe Mieczkowski studies the events after the Battle of Gettysburg

retired Chief Historian

The War for the Common Soldier - how men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the civil war armies (Peters S. Carmichael- CH) PCN Gottfried’s efforts to study andHow did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the