The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Shaara that brings to life the

that brings to life the words of Lincoln’s awe-inspiring response to one of the Civil War’s costliest conflicts

social-climbing spouses and power-hungry politicians―as a microcosm of all the opposing forces that had driven the country apart

is now in the process of recruitment in the Commonwealth

Marszalek traces the sixteenth president’s evolution from a nonmilitary politician into the commander in chief who won the Civil War

“… and sir I do assure you he has as much the use of your wife as you have

The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Shaara that brings to life theby Diana L. Dretske When curator Diana L. Dretske discovered that the five long gone Union soldiers in a treasured photograph in the Bess Bower Dunn Museum were not fully identified, it compelled her into a project of recovery and reinterpretation. Utilizing an impressive array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the authors microhistorical approach records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle