Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War

Gerald Linderman

Linderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now.

Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War is on the General Eric Shinseki list.