Book Review: Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War

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by David Madden

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. 160 pp. . . ISBN:0-87049-948-3

The fictional account of a young Unionist Tennesseean impressed into the Confederate Army, who serves as a sharpshooter and prison guard before the was ends, leaving him to spend the balance of his life coming to grips with his experiences. Interesting, and often moving.

Reviewer: A. A. Nofi   


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