Book Review: To Petersburg with the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Letters of Levi Bird Duff, 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers
Levi Bird Duff, To Petersburg with the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Letters of Levi Bird Duff, 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers, McFarland; 240 pages; paperback; ISBN-13: 9780786444304. From the Publisher: The letters of Levi Bird Duff present a perceptive picture of life in the Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1864. They are unusual for their literacy, descriptions and continuity, the strength of opinions expressed, and their source:…
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Benton Rain Patterson, Ending the Civil War: The Bloody Year from Grant’s Promotion to Lincoln’s Assassination, Jefferson McFarland & Co., 2012. 332 pp. $38.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-6964-2. Mr. Patterson, emeritus associate professor of journalism at the University of Florida, via McFarland has written an uninspiring take on the final 13 months of the Civil War titled: Ending the Civil War: The Bloody Year from Grant’s Promotion to Lincoln’s Assassination. Awkward…
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