"For sheer description, these letters are unsurpassed."--Civil War
History"An unmatched record of the common Union soldier's
life."--Washington Post Book World"A marvelous account of the Civil
War, equal or superior to any produced by the common soldier, North
or South."--Philadelphia Inquirer"Of the publishing of Civil War
letters and memoirs there is no end, but Private Fisk's Civil War
has all the earmarks of a classic."--Journal of American
History"One of the richest sources on Civil War soldiering in
print. An exciting, readable book."--Atlanta History"These letters
are remarkably astute, exceedingly detailed, and often brutally
honest."--Blue & Gray Magazine"Fisk, shrewd and humorous, combining
idealism and patriotism with a healthy dose of common sense,
deserves to stand beside Elisha Hunt Rhodes as an archetypical
soldier of the Army of the Potomac."--Publishers Weekly"The letters
contain descriptions of conditions in camp, on the march, and in
hospitals; comments on battles, officers, and army morale;
reactions to places seen and executions of deserters, as well as
Fisk's political views and military frustrations."--Choice"The Fisk
letters are superb. They are extremely well written and they convey
a magnificent picture of the life of a Federal soldier in the Army
of the Potomac."--Civil War Book Exchange
"One of the finest records I know of what it was like to fight and
win the Civil War."--Geoffrey C. Ward, coauthor of the PBS
documentary The Civil War and author of the companion volume, The
Civil War: An Illustrated History"Fisk's letters are marvelous. It
is almost unbelievable, they are such literary gems. In fact, they
are so good that the thought occurred to me that perhaps they are
not authentic. It would be believable that some expert novelist had
created them!"--Herman Hattaway, coauthor of How the North Won the
Civil War and Why the South Lost the Civil War"This is one of the
richest collections of Civil War letters I have seen. I doubt if I
have seen any collection that surpasses it. Fisk is intelligent and
thoughtful. He writes well and the prose is still accessible to a
late twentieth-century reader. He successfully presents the
minutiae of soldier life-marching, food, picketing, pay,
battles-while also explicating the issues behind the war."--Reid
Mitchell, author of Civil War Soldiers: Their Expectations and
Experiences"An important combat chronology of the war from the
infantry private's viewpoint."--James McPherson, author of Battle
Cry of Freedom
Fisk directed his correspondence to a newspaper in his native Vermont, depicting army life from an enlisted man's point of view. He portrays honestly and with a wealth of detail the common soldier's regimen of marching, drilling, fighting, picketing, eating, waiting for pay, and searching for shelter. The letters reveal a man committed to winning the war who nonetheless felt constant doubts about his religion, his officers' leadership, and his fellow soldiers' morals. The best overall picture of Union Army life in epistolary form, this unique volume, quite different from other compendia of Civil War letters, should be purchased by all public and academic libraries with Civil War collections. History Book Club selection.-- W. Walter Wicker, Louisiana Tech Univ., Ruston
"For sheer description, these letters are unsurpassed."--Civil
War History"An unmatched record of the common Union soldier's
life."--Washington Post Book World"A marvelous account of the Civil
War, equal or superior to any produced by the common soldier, North
or South."--Philadelphia Inquirer"Of the publishing of Civil War
letters and memoirs there is no end, but Private Fisk's Civil War
has all the earmarks of a classic."--Journal of American
History"One of the richest sources on Civil War soldiering in
print. An exciting, readable book."--Atlanta History"These letters
are remarkably astute, exceedingly detailed, and often brutally
honest."--Blue & Gray Magazine"Fisk, shrewd and humorous, combining
idealism and patriotism with a healthy dose of common sense,
deserves to stand beside Elisha Hunt Rhodes as an archetypical
soldier of the Army of the Potomac."--Publishers Weekly"The letters
contain descriptions of conditions in camp, on the march, and in
hospitals; comments on battles, officers, and army morale;
reactions to places seen and executions of deserters, as well as
Fisk's political views and military frustrations."--Choice"The Fisk
letters are superb. They are extremely well written and they convey
a magnificent picture of the life of a Federal soldier in the Army
of the Potomac."--Civil War Book Exchange
"One of the finest records I know of what it was like to fight and win the Civil War."--Geoffrey C. Ward, coauthor of the PBS documentary The Civil War and author of the companion volume, The Civil War: An Illustrated History"Fisk's letters are marvelous. It is almost unbelievable, they are such literary gems. In fact, they are so good that the thought occurred to me that perhaps they are not authentic. It would be believable that some expert novelist had created them!"--Herman Hattaway, coauthor of How the North Won the Civil War and Why the South Lost the Civil War"This is one of the richest collections of Civil War letters I have seen. I doubt if I have seen any collection that surpasses it. Fisk is intelligent and thoughtful. He writes well and the prose is still accessible to a late twentieth-century reader. He successfully presents the minutiae of soldier life-marching, food, picketing, pay, battles-while also explicating the issues behind the war."--Reid Mitchell, author of Civil War Soldiers: Their Expectations and Experiences"An important combat chronology of the war from the infantry private's viewpoint."--James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
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