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Lee’s Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox (Civil War America)

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Never did so large a proportion of the American population leave home for an extended period and produce this kind of detailed record of its experiences in the form of correspondence, diaries, and other papers as all through the Civil War. In accordance with research in more than 1,200 wartime letters and diaries by more than 400 Confederate officers and enlisted men, this book offers a compelling social history of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia all through its final year, from May 1864 to April 1865.

Organized in a chronological framework, the book uses the words of the soldiers themselves to provide a view of the army’s experiences in camp, at the march, in combat, and under siege–from the battles in the Wilderness to the final retreat to Appomattox. It sheds new light on such questions as the state of morale in the army, the causes of desertion, ties between the army and the home front, the debate over arming black men in the Confederacy, and the causes of Confederate defeat. Remarkably
rich and detailed, Lee’s Miserables offers a fresh take a look at one of the crucial-studied Civil War armies.

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