Description: Lying dead in Gettysburg with no identification, a lone Union soldier was named the "Unknown Soldier." Dunkelman weaves the story of Sgt. Humiston, his widow, and his children who struggled the rest of their lives. This paperback reprint includes a new introduction by the author and foreword by Academy award-winning film director Errol Morris.
Brief description: Errol Morris is an Academy award-winning film director, New York Times bestselling author, and regular contributor to The New York Times opinion pages and Op-Docs series. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he has received the Columbia Journalism Award and honorary degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brandeis University, and Middlebury College. In 2007, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Morris lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Julia Sheehan, an art historian, and their French Bulldog, Ivan.
Review Quotes: "...a beautiful volume that cannot be missing on the shelves of fans and historians of the American Civil War, a story that will thrill and move even today."-- "Old Barbed Wire"