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This 8 page paper compares and contrasts two books by Bell I. Wiley: The life of Johnny Reb and The Life of Billy Yank. Examples, quotes cited from texts. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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cleaner job of a deadly pursuit. However, during the war called, The Civil War, the fighting was messy, the body count was devastating, and the country would never completely heal
from its wounds. Bell I. Wiley was able to interview those who lived through the Civil War and as such was able to compile many of the letters, diary entries
and first hand accounts from those who actually fought in the Civil War. His accounts, called, The Life of Johnny Reb and The Life of Billy Yank stand as two
examples of the mindset of the average soldier in both the Union and Confederate armies. Johnny Reb The book called, The Life
of Johnny Reb, would not be published until 1943, but was begun many decades before. Many credit Wiley with being one of the first historians to consider using the first
hand accounts via personal letters and diaries in the retelling and recounting of an event in history. As a result, his work has the clarity of a primary source.
Of the average Confederate soldier Bell Wiley would write, "The dominant urge of many volunteers was the desire for adventure"(Wiley 1983). For many
Southern young men, war was an opportunity to travel to other parts of the country that they had never seen. War seemed glorious and wondrously romantic, and most joined the
effort without fully understanding or considering what the outcome could be. "War, with its offering to travel to far places, of intimate association with large numbers of other men, of
the glory and excitement of battle, was an alluring prospect to farmers who in peace spent long lonely hours between plow handles, to mechanics who worked day in and day
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