Rebels and Yankees - The Fighting Men of the Civil War

1989. In good condition with DW.
A fully illustrated account of the daily lives, trials and hardships of the common enlisted soldiers during the American Civil War. Civil War soldiers leavened their deadly serious busines with wit and humour. So does Davis in this marvellous account of those three million Rebels and Yankees who went to war from 1861 to 1865. The human side of this tragic but triumphant conflict emerges not only in Davis's lively text but also in the vivid contemporary photographs of men at war and the modern full-colour photographs of the artifacts they left behind them...