Ron Field: Union Infantryman vs Confederate Infantryman [2013] paperback ZBIOG join the British in the

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Ron Field: Union Infantryman vs Confederate Infantryman [2013] paperback ZBIOG join the British in theThe enthusiastic but largely inexperienced soldiers serving on both sides in the Civil War had to adapt quickly to the appalling realities of warfare in the industrial age. Author Ron Field, an authority on the Civil War, investigates three clashes that illustrate the changing realities of combat. Pitched into combat after an exhausting march to reach the battlefield, newly recruited infantrymen of both sides clashed at First Bull Run Manassas in