Volume 52, Number 15 · October 6, 2005
Brahmins at War
By James M. McPherson
Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
by Richard F. Miller
University Press of New England, 544 pp., $34.95
The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835–64
by Carol Bundy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 548 pp., $35.00
In the 1970s, United States Army General John A. Wickham, commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, visited the Civil War battlefield of Antietam. There he gazed at Bloody Lane, where Union soldiers had attacked repeatedly before finally breaking through after suffering casualties greater than 50 percent in some regiments. 'You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that,' he said.[1]
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