“In this updated edition of Through Blood and Fire, Acken demonstrates expertise in his editing of Mills’s letters. He provides detailed annotations about Union Army commanders and Mills’s social circle of elite Bostonians and Harvard alumni… Acken’s superb book deserves a space on the bookshelf of any scholar who studies the Union Army, the experiences of soldiers, and newer questions about the impact of death and disability on the men who fought in the Civil War.”—H-Net Online

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