Battle
The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat

Kent Gramm (Edited by), Eric T. Dean (Contributions by), Bruce A. Evans (Contributions by), Paul Fussell (Contributions by), Kent Gramm (Contributions by), Scott Hartwig (Contributions by), Alan T. Nolan (Contributions by)

9780817361600, The University of Alabama Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 February 2024

160 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg

“Congratulations to Gramm and his contributors on their good work. Battle has greater cohesion than most collections of its kind. It will appeal to both specialists and general readers.” —Perry D. Jamieson, coauthor of Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage

The first modern war fought with old-fashioned techniques

Romanticism is as rife in Civil War history as any other and may produce more than its share of drums and trumpets writing that glosses over the fear, pain, and death that are inevitable components of all warfare. The essays that make up this collection seek to act as corrective to such celebratory history by carefully examining some of the unpleasant realities that marked combat in the Civil War—when industrial and technological warfare came of age, at a time when medical care, sanitation, diet, and other modern adaptations to industry were still in their infancy.