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

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.Gerald Linderman is a professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the acclaimed Mirror of War.