Feeding Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (Michael C. Hardy - CA) prisons the common soldier

the common soldier

and Life at War: The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D

President Lincoln’s secretary of war

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Weight :4 oz

Feeding Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (Michael C. Hardy - CA) prisons the common soldierby Michael C. Hardy Explores the critical role of food and logistics in sustaining Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Carlton McCarthy, a former artilleryman with the Richmond Howitzers, noted after the war that historians would only write about big battles and campaigns, not how the common soldier fried his bacon and baked his biscuits. McCarthy was correct. Save for a few scattered references in a handful of books, no one has documented how