Hard Dying Men : The Story of General W.H.L. Wallace, General T.E.G. Ransom, and Their Old Eleventh Illinois Infantry in the American Civil War (1861-1865)

Jim Huffstodt
Heritage Books
9781556135101
1-55613-510-6

Although this new work does discuss the role of the Eleventh in the various battles of the Civil War, the emphasis is on the human element of the war: how the soldiers felt, acted, and lived. The narrative.

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allows us to follow the lives of these men, many