Synopses & Reviews
These letters by New England soldiers and their families, manypublished for the first time, speak of the hardships of the war, especiallyfrustrations with the army, homefront suffering, and government policies. They aregrouped by six major themes: the military experience, the meaning of the war, viewsof the South, politics on the home front, the personal sacrifices of war, and thecorrespondence of one New England family.