The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union

Through excerpted letters, diary entries, newspaper accounts, and official records, Wiley offers the reader a complete portrait of the ordinary foot soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-09-2007; An engaging book; Like his companion book, Life of Johnny Reb, this book looks at how soldiers were recruited and kept by the Army. The Union had the advantage of an army already in being but its expansion to meet its wartime needs changed the very nature...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-16-2006; very informative; Just as informative about the life of the Common Soldierwho served in the Northern ranks as his book The Life of Johnny Reb is of the soldier who apposed him thoughcleary better developed by the author's experience. Very informative....; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-26-2004; The Classic Study of the Union Soldier; Bell Irvin Wiley (1906-1980) enjoyed a distinguished career as a professor at the University of Mississippi and Emory University and as the author or editor of over 20 books on the Civil War. His "The Life of Billy Yank: the Common...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-28-2004; Common heroes; Bell Irvin Wiley seems to have been the first historian/writer to realize that the Civil War was not just about Lee, Pickett, Grant or Stuart or any of the other guys with stars on their shoulders. The real truth about what happened on...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-09-2007; An engaging book; Like his companion book, Life of Johnny Reb, this book looks at how soldiers were recruited and kept by the Army. The Union had the advantage of an army already in being but its expansion to meet its wartime needs changed the very nature...; read full review | report as inappropriate