ISBN
9780700626281
Price
$29.95
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Abstract
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” Famed Confederate cavalryman Nathan Bedford Forrest’s well-known and brutally concise statement of the essence of war serves to set the theme of Jonathan M. Steplyk’s study of the nature of killing in Civil War combat. Utilizing wartime and postwar accounts of participants, a number of which are quite familiar to Civil War readers, Steplyk analyzes this peculiar and ultimate experience of war from the point of view of the men who were necessarily tasked with killing their erstwhile countrymen.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.21.1.14
Recommended Citation
Elliott, Sam D.
(2019)
"Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 21
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Iss.
1
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.21.1.14
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol21/iss1/14
