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| Size | | Length: | 237 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"How lucky we are that Mr. McPherson, at the peak of his career, choose to go back to the sources. Not many senior scholars do that. More is the pity."
Wall Street Journal - Stephen E. Ambrose (02/21/1997)
"Mcpherson's newest addition to a long roster of books is valuable not only for Civil aficionados but for students of military history generally."
Baranczak
"...[T]he harsh experience of battle did not in general dilute idealistic motives. Instead it enhanced the soldiers' determination to see their purposes fulfilled. Unlike so many combatants in this century's conflicts, Civil War soldiers did not come to regard the very words 'duty,' 'honor,' 'cause,' 'comradeship' and 'glory' with disdain. <BR>Mr. McPherson is an instructive guide in all of this. Perceptions common to the 20th century, he cogently argues, do not serve well toward understanding the combat motivations of 1861-65. Americans of that era differed so profoundly from most of us that we must marvel when, visiting Fredericksburg, we envisage the Union charge up Marye's Heights on Dec. 13, 1862. Or when, at Gettysburg, we recall the Confederate march across the shallow valley from Seminary to Cemetery Ridge. How could so many thousands bring themselves to do such things? Clearly, the world of combat that Mr. McPherson leads us through is very different from our own. And so, in the background of his study, there always lurks the troubling question whether our generation, or any foreseeable generation, could dedicate itself to any cause whatever with the willingness that the Civil War generation displayed."
New York Times Book Review - Russell F. Weigley (03/23/1997)
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