Soldiers from Experience

Winner of the Albert Castel Book Award Winner of the Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award Winner of the Civil War Books and Authors Book of the Year Award In Soldiers from Experience, Eric Michael Burke examines the tactical behavior and operational performance of Major General William T. Sherman’s Fifteenth US Army Corps during its first year fighting in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Burke analyzes how specific experiences and patterns of meaning-making within the ran