{"product_id":"inglorious-passages-noncombat-deaths-in-the-american-civil-war-modern-war-studies-9780700625086","title":"Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War (Modern War Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the Civil War  two-thirds  by some estimates  were felled by disease; untold others were lost to accidents  murder  suicide  sunstroke  and drowning. Meanwhile thousands of civilians in both the north and south perishedin factories  while caught up in battles near their homes  and in other circumstances associated with wartime production and supply. These inglorious passages  no less than the deaths of soldiers in combat  devastated the armies in the field and families and communities at home. Inglorious Passages for the first time gives these noncombat deaths due consideration.  In letters  diaries  obituaries  and other accounts  eminent Civil War historian Brian Steel Wills finds the powerful and poignant stories of fatal accidents and encounters and collateral civilian deaths that occurred in the factories and fields of the Union and the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Wills retrieves these stories from obscurity and the cold calculations of statistics to reveal the grave toll these losses exacted on soldiers and civilians  families and society. In its intimate details and its broad scope  his book demonstrates that for those who served and those who supported them  noncombat fatalities were as significant as battle deaths in impressing the full force of the American Civil War on the people called upon to live through it. With the publication of Inglorious Passages  those who paid the supreme sacrifice  regardless of situation or circumstance  will at last be included in the final tabulation of the nations bloodiest conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960491106357,"sku":"ByrdShop_0700625089","price":62.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780700625086.jpg?v=1788288874","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/inglorious-passages-noncombat-deaths-in-the-american-civil-war-modern-war-studies-9780700625086","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}