A thousand may fall : life, death, and survival in the Union Army / Brian Matthew Jordan.

"From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. Brian Matthew Jordan's Marching Home, a "powerful exploration" (Washington Post) of the fates of Union veterans, vaulted him into the first rank...

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Main Author:	Jordan, Brian Matthew, 1986- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	United States. > Army. > Ohio Infantry Regiment, 107th (1862-1865) Ohio > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, German. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, German American. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, Immigrant. German American soldiers > Ohio > History > 19th century. Immigrants > Ohio > History > 19th century. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories. German American soldiers. Immigrants. Military participation > German. Military participation > German American. Military participation > Immigrant. Regimental histories. Ohio. United States. History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Variant Title:	Life, death, and survival in the Union Army
Format:	Book

Contents:

"We feel it our duty" : August and September 1862
"To crush out the ... ungodly rebellion" : October to December 1862
"Stop all firing in the rear of us" : January to April 1863
"Completely and scientifically flanked" : April to May 1863
"Heaping upon us ... ignominy and shame" : May to July 1863
"All that mortal[s] could do" : July to August 1863
"We are not cowards" : August 1863 to February 1864
"So many hardships" : February 1864 to July 1865
"The feelings of a soldier" : July 1865 and beyond.