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

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This Civil War classic of soldiering within the ranks debunks all of the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather, disease, and mental strain. However the experience used to be most likely even worse for Johnny Reb on account of the odds against him. Never as well equipped and provisioned as the Yankee, he however performed heroically.
 
Carlton McCarthy, a private within the Army of Northern Virginia, describes the not-at all times-regular rations, more than a few improvisations in clothing and weaponry, campfire entertainments, the jaunty spirits and the endless maneuvering of the men in gray. Real but forgotten faces are glimpsed momentarily in famous battles, and the tramp of feet with a purpose to Appomattox is heard. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life does for the Confederate side what John Billings’s Hardtack and Coffee, also a Bison Book, does for the Northern. David Donald wrote within the New York Herald Tribune that McCarthy’s book, too, used to be “as fresh, as amusing, and as revealing” as the day it used to be first published in 1882.
 
In a new introduction Brian S. Wills considers the book’s niche in Civil War literature.

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