The Bloody Crucible of Courage
Subtitle: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: March 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780786715633
Subjects: American history; American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Defence strategy, planning & research; Military engineering; Warfare & Defence; Military Tactics And Strategy; Military History - U.S. Civil War; History; History - Military / War; Military; USA; United States - Civil War; Military - United States; History / Military / United States; Military Science
First sentence: Whether because of the difficulty of the task or because most historians have traditonally been more interested in the chronological, political, or biographical dimensions of the Civil War, a comprehensive analysis of the fighting methods employed during this conflict has been largely overlooked.