Inglorious Passages: Brian Steel Wills

Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War

” With this work a master historian presents a powerfully researched and engagingly written history of the American Civil War’s. Non-combatants fatalities.  Brian Steel Wills explores the end of life events for those men and women who died by tragic accidents, military execution, virulent disease, melancholy suicide, unpredictable weather, and industrial mishaps.  Filling a wide gap in the Civil War field, this book is an important one to have on any military history bookshelf.”

Barton A. Myers