I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over The Civil War in the West Binding: Paperback Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr Publish Date: 2014/03/01 Synopsis: ...collects diaries, letters, and memoirs excerpted from their original publication in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly to offer a first-hand, ground-level view of the war's horrors, its mundane hardships, its pitched battles and languid stretches, even its moments of frivolity. Readers will find varying degrees of commitment and different motivations among soldiers on both sides, along with the perspective of civilians. In many cases, these documents address aspects of the war that would become objects of scholarly and popular fascination only years after their initial appearance: the guerrilla conflict that became the real war west of the Mississippi; the hard war waged against civilians long before William Tecumseh Sherman set foot in Georgia; the ... |