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johnny reb and billy yank

by alexander hunter

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This documentary work written by Beller narrates about the life of common soldiers who take part in the Civil War in America. In the introducing the author brings into some meaningful terms that can give some clues about the people: “Billy Yank, as the Union soldier was commonly referred to, and Johnny Reb, the nickname given to Confederate soldiers.” Terms like these are used superfluously much, in the book they can be met for several times in one sentence. However the coating is given sufficiently – the writer talks about diseases, arms, both armies, food, fights, main battles and so on. Moreover some quotations from the letters from and to the armies are demonstrated in the book. The appendix includes maps, photographs, timetable of the Civil War, some notes, auxiliary books and other resources.

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...see what will happen; 'nothing venture, nothing gain ;' besides, what will your comrades say if you return without having fired a shot?" So the Captain was overruled against his better judgment. Once more was heard the report of a rifle not far off, and Walter Addison, of Company A, called out quickly : "Get behind that log and look at the top of those trees, " at the same time falling flat and peeping over the trunk in the direction of his extended no JOHNNY REB AND BILLY YANK finger. It needed no keen sense of sight to see what he was pointing out, for bright flashes of fire, followed by puffs of smoke, were issuing from the tops of the trees, not seventy-five yards distant. We all took careful aim and pulled trigger. Instantly the fire from them increased ; bullets hummed around us like a raging swarm of bees; we started to load, when two or three balls, searching the covert about us, knocked the bark and splint- ers from the very log behind which we were lying. "It is time to be...