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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Civil War Soldier Life Sources in KSU’s Sturgis Library
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Gooding, James Henry. On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the
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Guerrant, Edward O. Bluegrass Confederate: The Headquarters Diary of Edward O. Guerrant.
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Peddy, George Washington. Saddle Bag and Spinning Wheel: Being the Civil War Letters of
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the War of the Great Rebellion as Told by the Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes,
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1998.
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Army of Northern Virginia. Edited by G. Ward Hubbs. Athens: University of Georgia
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Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta. An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta
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Watkins, Samuel R. Company Aytch, Or, a Side Show of the Big Show and Other Sketches.
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Margaret C. Richard. New York: Fordham University Press, 1986.
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Wightman, Edward King. From Antietam to Fort Fisher: The Civil War Letters of Edward King
Wightman, 1862-1865. Edited by Edward G. Longacre. Cranbury, NJ: Associated
University Presses, 1985.
Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
———. The Life of Johnny Reb, the Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University, 2008.
Wilkeson, Frank. Turned Inside Out: Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the
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