By Mark H. Dunkelman. The author identifies the characteristics of Civil War esprit de corps and charts its development from recruitment and combat to the end of the war and beyond through the experience of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. (Primarily recruited from Chautauqua & Cattaraugus Counties of Western New York.) Drawing on three decades of research and more than a thousand wartime letters and two dozen diaries kept by members of the 154th, the author offers a unique psychological portrait of a front line company that fought with distinction at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Valley, Rocky Face Ridge, and other engagements. 6x9 344 pages index notes bibliography Cloth