What a tough year - 1862 - with thousands and thousands of men killed in several famous battles.
We get a profile of the South's "Stonewall" Jackson; we hear a condemnation again on Union General McClellan's inept leadership of the Union forces, and the Emancipation Proclamation is made by President Lincoln after the battle of Antietam.
The most amazing fact in this "volume three," I thought, was that twice as many men died in the war from sickness and disease than from battle! Also amazing was the Union army losing 25 percent of its force to deserters.
The account of this war almost made me root for the South, which I never have, simply because I (and most others) like to root for the underdog and the South is so badly outnumbered in almost every battle, it's astounding they ever won anything. They exhibited incredible guts and fortitude.
We get a profile of the South's "Stonewall" Jackson; we hear a condemnation again on Union General McClellan's inept leadership of the Union forces, and the Emancipation Proclamation is made by President Lincoln after the battle of Antietam.
The most amazing fact in this "volume three," I thought, was that twice as many men died in the war from sickness and disease than from battle! Also amazing was the Union army losing 25 percent of its force to deserters.
The account of this war almost made me root for the South, which I never have, simply because I (and most others) like to root for the underdog and the South is so badly outnumbered in almost every battle, it's astounding they ever won anything. They exhibited incredible guts and fortitude.