My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) rooster Carmichael resists the idea that

Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them

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My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) rooster Carmichael resists the idea thatby Paul Taylor (Editor), Earl J. Hess (Foreword) More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (18321895) remains one of the Unions most unsung heroes. He served the Union in uniform from day one of the conflict until the Confederate surrender in North Carolina in late April 1865, and he used his unparalleled ability to predict Confederate movements to lead multiple successful