By Matt Slattery
The Cleveland Civil War Roundtable
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The Charger in the winter of 2002.
Many of the books on the Civil War (the fighting Civil War) deal with the strategy of the governments, North and South, and as carried out by their leading generals. Then there is a great break and many books then turn to the story of the individual soldier, the young man in blue or gray, and his contention with the terrors of battles and the risks of years’ long campaigning.
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