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Like Grass Before the Scythe: The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel 121st New York Infantry First Edition, Edition
Contributor(s): Remmel, William (Author), Bender, Robert Patrick (Editor)
ISBN: 0817359753     ISBN-13: 9780817359751
Publisher: University Alabama Press
OUR PRICE:   $23.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military - United States
Dewey: 973.744
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
 
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Publisher Description:
Uncommonly articulate letters from a young German-American soldier with the Union forces

Sergeant William Remmel was a German immigrant who had settled with his parents and family in far upstate New York. His letters collected in Like Grass before the Scythe cover more than two full years of his service and provide details on military and social history in the eastern theater of operations and on the experience of the home front in upstate New York among a largely immigrant, working-class family and community.

Remmel wrote in English and apparently his parents responded in German. In addition to the important material on an immigrant family's experience, Remmel also deals with the question of slavery, illness and hospital care (when he was wounded), the problem of hard war/total war, as well as the campaigns of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Shenandoah Valley in 1864.