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Earl J. Hess
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The Union Soldier in Earl J. Hess epub The Union Soldier in Earl J. Hess pdf download The Union Soldier in Earl J. Hess pdf file The Union Soldier in Earl J. Hess audiobook The Union Soldier in Earl J. Hess book review The Union Soldier in Earl J. Hess summary | #776293 in Books | University Press of Kansas | 1997-04-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .58 x6.10 x9.08l,.83 | File type: PDF | 244 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| "the horrors of war more than counterbalance the glory"|By Kerry Walters|So writes Pennsylvanian Jacob Heffelfinger after his first battle in the Civil War. Heffelfinger is one of the dozens of veterans whose letters and memoirs Hess examined to write this study of the Union soldier under fire. His chapters examine the visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile experience of ba|From Library Journal|The fall of Fort Sumter caught the Union Army unaware. It was a small army whose officers, even the West Pointers, were ill prepared to mold a huge fighting force from a volunteer civilian population. Often, the soldiers didn't even see the
I saw enough to sicken the heart. . . . The scenes which I witnessed were enough to overthrow all imaginations concerning the glory of war; but, dreadful as they were, I hope and believe that I would be willing to suffer the worst, . . . rather than prove a traitor to the trust which our country reposes in all her sons.
—J. Spangler Kieffer, Pennsylvania Militia
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