Rebels and Yankees: The Fighting Men of the Civil War - Hardcover

Davis, William C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0831732644 ISBN 13: 9780831732646

Publisher: Gallery Books, 1989

Synopsis

"A long association with the Cheyennes has given me a special interest in them, and a special wish that they should be allowed to speak for themselves. What the Indians saw in the battles here described, I have learned during years of intimate acquaintance with those who took part in them."-George Bird Grinnell.Without critical comment or biased judgement, George Bird Grinnell-one of the truly great historians of the American Indian-has recorded the major battles that the Cheyennes fought. In this account the entire gallery of the heroic Cheyenne chiefs and warriors-Roman Nose and Black Kettle and Dull Knife and many others-emerge in full color as they strive against the greatest enemy of all: the failure of the white man to understand and appreciate their way of life and his ignorance of their real capacity for peace and cooperation."[Grinnell’s] integrity, sincerity, sympathy, and understanding made him welcome in every tipi. . . . He was one of the very few historians who knew how to get authentic information from Indians, and how to present things as they saw them in readable form."–Stanley Vestal in the foreword.

About this title

About the Author:

William C. Davis is professor of history at Virginia Tech and Director of Programs at Virginia Tech's Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. He has written more than fifty books on the Civil War and Southern history.

Synopsis:

Documents the everyday life of the common soldier during the Civil War, including information on what life was like for the soldiers in basic training, combat, and imprisonment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0831732644
• ISBN 13: 9780831732646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1