Provides insight into the men who fought a devastating war.

Includes index.

Wars for freedom. -- Enemies and savages: The enemy encountered : prisoners, deserters, fellow soldiers ; The savage society : the prisoner and the prison -- From volunteer to soldier : psychology of service. -- The landscape of war : the Union soldier views the South: The peopled landscape ; The threatening landscape. -- The Confederate experience: Prologue: Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania, 1863 ; The Confederate soldier and the crisis of the South ; Confederate defeat and Southern morale: a note -- The end of the war.