The Life of Billy Yank
Subtitle: The Common Soldier of the Union
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: January 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780807119082
Subjects: American history; Civil war; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; Personal narratives; Military History - U.S. Civil War; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; Soldiers; Military - General; United States - Civil War; Civil War, 1861-1865; History; United States
First sentence: TWENTY-EIGHT years ago, when I had completed research for The Life of Billy Yank, I estimated that I had read twenty thousand letters written by the men who wore the blue.