The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War - Softcover

Bonner, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080908743X ISBN 13: 9780809087433

Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

They are all infantrymen; none were commissioned officers. One is a German-speaking artist whose sole record is nineteen stunning watercolors that cover a year's enlistment. Another is a free black from Syracuse, New York. Six are from slave states, one of whom was a Unionist. Drawing from the more than 60,000 documents housed in the privately held Gilder Lehrman Collection, Robert E. Bonner has movingly reconstructed the experiences of sixteen Civil War soldiers, using their own accounts to knit together a ground-level view of the entire conflict. The immediacy of diaries and the intimacy of letters to loved ones accompany the humor of an anonymous cartoonist from Massachusetts, the vivid paintings of Private Henry Berckhoff.

All reproduced for the first time in The Soldier's Pen, the documents and images that Bonner weaves together, providing context and explanation as required, powerfully re-create the day-to-day lives of the soldiers who fought and died for Union and Confederacy. Not since the 2000 publication of Robert Sneden's paintings and papers in Eye of the Storm has a collection of original Civil War documents so evocatively captured the war.

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Robert E. Bonner; Foreword by James G. Basker

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• Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080908743X
• ISBN 13: 9780809087433
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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