A brotherhood of valor : the common soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A.

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Location	Collection	Call #
Andrew Carnegie Free Library	Civil War	973.742 WERT
Location	Andrew Carnegie Free Library
Collection	Civil War
Call Number	973.742 WERT
CLP - Main Library	Mezzanine - Non-fiction	E581.4.S8 W47 1999
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	Mezzanine - Non-fiction
Call Number	E581.4.S8 W47 1999
Penn Hills Library	Non-Fiction	973.74 WER
Location	Penn Hills Library
Collection	Non-Fiction
Call Number	973.74 WER
Springdale Free Public Library	Adult Nonfiction	973.7 WERT
Location	Springdale Free Public Library
Collection	Adult Nonfiction
Call Number	973.7 WERT

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Booklist Review: "In the densely populated world of Civil War readers, Wert has earned a prime reputation with his biographies of Mosby, Longstreet, and Custer. But by entering the subgenre of regimental histories, Wert takes a risk, as they tend to die under a deathly hail of detail. However, Wert's project is favored by the Stonewall and Iron Brigades' status as the war's most legendary units, and it prospers because of Wert's narrative experience and sense of factual selection. Readers aren't subjected to details about every soldier, yet the life of that soldier is adequately brought out in the misery and morale crises each brigade confronted and in the esprit de corps each developed in the course of the war. The individual soldier's place in the big picture is secured by the dozen maps Wert includes, which trace the eastern battles that by 1864 had basically destroyed both Stonewall Jackson's "foot cavalry" and the distinctive blacks hats of the Iron Brigade. The buffs will gravitate to Wert's fine synthesis. Gilbert Taylor"
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "It's Wert's good fortune‘and ours‘that the two most interesting Confederate and Union units left such wonderful paper trails. Wert (Custer, etc.) takes full advantage of this and delivers a first-rate book about the two most renowned infantry commands of the Civil War, which confronted each other at Manassas (Bull Run), Fredericksburg, Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Through skillful use of period letters, diaries and action reports, Wert paints a vivid portrait of the Confederate and Union soldiers who bled together across the killing grounds of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Particularly appealing is the way this volume allows readers soldier's-eye views from both sides of key battles. A good example of this is when we learn that the Union line that appeared so formidable to frightened young Confederates in the cornfield at Antietam was in fact a confused mix of equally terrified, equally young men in blue, unsure of their strategy and‘at that moment‘unsure of their commanders as well. In addition to being brave, the men of the Stonewall and Iron brigades were eloquent and prolific writers. Armed with a wealth of first-person accounts, Wert often (and wisely) steps back, allowing the soldiers to tell their own stories as no one else can. Agent, Robert Gottlieb at the William Morris Agency. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Confederate States of America. -- Army. -- Stonewall Brigade. United States. -- Army. -- Iron Brigade (1861-1865) United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
Publisher	New York :Simon & Schuster,1999
Language	English
Description	413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-398) and index.
ISBN	0684824353
Other	Classic View