Following the Greek Cross or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps HB Book

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Condition
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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ISBN
9780811715997
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Stackpole Books
ISBN-10
081171599X
ISBN-13
9780811715997
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038655231

Product Key Features

Book Title
Three Years with the 92nd Illinois : the Civil War Diary of John M. King
Number of Pages
2 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Claire E. Swedberg
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
1.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-055166
Dewey Edition
21
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
973.7/473/092 B
Synopsis
King became a corporal in the 92nd Illinois, which began as a Union infantry unit and was later converted to mounted infantry and equipped with Spencer rifles, making it one of the best-armed units in the army. A trained journalist, King wrote his diary as a reporter would, with attention to time and place and great detail about life in combat for the Union soldier. Officers, he said, were no better than buck privates and often much worse when they assigned men in their commands to dangerous and unnecessary tasks. Disease and infections were common problems in the army, and King experienced his share. Swedberg, a newspaper journalist and author of In Enemy Hands: Personal Accounts of Those Taken Prisoner in World War II (Stackpole, 1998), does a thorough job of providing the reader with background information throughout the diary. Readers with little more than a basic knowledge of the Civil War can read this with a reasonably clear understanding., This unusually detailed and literate diary, written by a soldier who was later to become a newspaperman, records his personal experience of the latter part of the Civil War. King discusses his enlistment, the drunkenness and incompetence of some of his commanding officers, disparities between treatm
LC Classification Number
E505.5 92nd.K56 1999

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