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... Comments: This book is the companion volume to the book The Life of Johny Reb. Both are... Like his companion book, Life of Johnny Reb, this book looks at how soldiers... Just as informative about the life of the Common Soldierwho served in the... Bell Irvin Wiley (1906-1980) enjoyed a distinguished career as a professor at... Bell Irvin Wiley seems to have been the first historian/writer to realize that... Read More »

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