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The Bonds of War : A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Paperback / softback Book

The Bonds of War : A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Paperback / softback

Part of the Engaging the Civil War series

Paperback / softback

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The bond of citizenship earned during the Civil War When curator Diana L.

Dretske discovered that the five long-gone Union soldiers in a treasured photograph in the Bess Bower Dunn Museum were not fully identified, it compelled her into a project of recovery and reinterpretation.

Utilizing an impressive array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the author's microhistorical approach records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle of a crop field, a sister searching her brother's face for signs of war, and an immigrant dying in an effort to become a good American citizen. This book, the most intensive examination of the 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry since the regiment's history was published in 1887 centers on immigrants from the British Isles who wished to be citizens of a country at war with itself.

Far removed from their native homelands, they found new promise in rural Illinois.

These men, neighbors along the quiet Stateline Road in Lake County, decide to join the fighting at its most dangerous hour.

The bonds of war become then the bonds of their new national identity. The Bonds of War uncovers the common soldier from the cataclysm that is the American Civil War by offering a collective biography of five soldiers of the 96th in the Western Theater.

The human drama of their lives unfolds before the reader on battlefields such as Chickamauga and within the high pine stockades of Andersonville.

Their lives argue that those who seem to matter least in military history are the very ones who can tell us the most about the experience of war and the reasons for remembering.

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