The Life of Billy Yank is a frank, intimate, and warm study of the Union soldier by one of the most prolific and revered of all Civil War historians. Here, through excerpts from wartime letters and diaries and from other carefully documented research, Bell Irvin Wiley presents an absorbing account of the small and sometimes moving events that made up the daily life of the common Union soldier, a moral but fallible human who could laugh at lewd jokes, be stripped of his courage under fire, or save an entire company from certain death.
- ISBN10 0807104760
- ISBN13 9780807104767
- Publish Date 1 April 1979
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 September 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Louisiana State University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 488
- Language English