The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War

xiv, 752 pp. Includes two sections of illustrations reproduced from contemporary engravings. In this groundbreaking achievement in Civil War scholarship, acclaimed military historian Brent Nosworthy leads an all-out attack on the many myths and misunderstandings about how the North and South fought, and covers for the first time in any book the variety of Civil War combat methods in their entirety. Now everything from grand tactics to hand-to-hand combat during our nation's costliest war is given its proper due in the development of warfare.