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020			_a1421412217 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a9781421412214 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_z1421412225 (electronic)
020			_z9781421412221 (electronic)
035			_a(OCoLC)849822409 _z(OCoLC)880892080
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049			_aNFGA
092			_a973.71 _bA215
100	1		_aAdams, Michael C. C., _d1945- _9261068
245	1	0	_aLiving hell : _bthe dark side of the Civil War / _cMichael C. C. Adams.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bThe Johns Hopkins University Press, _c2014.
300			_axi, 292 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tOpening: Jim Conklin and General Sherman -- _tGone for a soldier -- _tOn the march -- _tClose-order combat -- _tClearing the battlefield -- _tThe edge of sanity -- _tDeprivations and dislocations -- _tInvasions and violations -- _tState of the union -- _tClosing: General Lee and the gray ladies.
520			_aMany Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Tourists flock to battlefields, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who cannot ultimately simulate the horrors of war. In Living Hell, Adams uses the voices of actual participants on the firing line or in the hospital ward to create a virtual historical reenactment. Perhaps because the United States has not seen conventional war on its own soil since 1865, the collective memory has faded, so that we have sanitized and romanticized the experience of the Civil War. Living Hell presents a stark portrait of the human costs of the Civil War and gives readers a more accurate appreciation of its profound and lasting consequences. Adams examines the sharp contrast between the expectations of recruits versus the realities of dirt and exposure, poor diet, malnutrition, and disease. He describes the slaughter produced by close-order combat, the difficulties of cleaning up the battlefields-- often tens of thousands of dead and wounded--and the resulting psychological damage to survivors. Drawing extensively on letters and memoirs of individual soldiers, Adams assembles vivid accounts of the distress they faced daily. Providing a powerful counterpoint to Civil War glorification, Living Hell echoes William Tecumseh Sherman's comment that war is cruelty and cannot be refined.--From publisher description.
650		0	_aWar and society _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _9261069
650		0	_aWar casualties _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _9261070
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865 _xCasualties. _9261071
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865 _xPsychological aspects. _9121843
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865 _xSocial aspects. _946656
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