Embattled Courage
Subtitle: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War
Publisher: Free Press; Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Published: April 17, 1989
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780029197615
First sentence: A young private of the Richmond Howitzers, Carlton McCarthy, recognized immediately how the soldier was expected to bear himself in the Civil War: "In a thousand ways he is tried . . . every quality is put to the test.