This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War by Scythes, James M.
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This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War by Scythes, James M.

This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War

Lehigh University Press
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$63.74

Description

This book presents a firsthand account of the experiences of seventeen-year-old Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell during Major General George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. Howell's story offers the reader a unique perspective of a young man coming of age in the Union army during the Civil War.

Author: James M. Scythes
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 08/31/2018
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781611462203
ISBN10: 1611462207
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- History | Military | General
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)

About the Author
James Scythes is instructor of history at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.