How Long to Read Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated)

How Long Does it Take to Read Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated)?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated) by Rev. Theodore Gerrish

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Description

Every great battle takes on new perspectives and meaning when viewed from the prone position of the private soldier, as opposed to the broad sweep of after-battle reports.Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Spottslyvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg...Theodore Gerrish was at them all with Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's 20th Maine Regiment. His vivid, compassionate, and often humorous telling is from the spot on the field where the minie-balls are thickest and the cannonading is deafening.This is one of the best private-soldier memoirs of the American Civil War in its scope and its minute details. The views Gerrish provides at the end of famous officers as seen from the private soldier's point of view include Grant, Meade, Hooker, Josuah Lawrence Chamberlain, and others with whom he came in contact.Some of the humor:"Chaplain, will you be kind enough to tell me what the two capital letters, B.C., stand for, when they are printed together upon anything?" "O, yes. It means before the birth of our Saviour, previous to the beginning of the Christian era." He proceeded to give quite a profound theological exposition of the matter, and then inquired, "Why did you ask so unusual a question?" "O, nothin'," answered the innocent Dick, "only we have seen it stamped on these sheets of hard-tack, and were curious to know why it was there."Of the African-Americans who fought, Gerrish says:"As these two races march beside each other in the struggle of life, we only ask and demand that those who, in their poverty, did all they could to save the nation and assist its defenders, shall not be deprived of their sacred rights."Front-line letters and diaries of the Civil War bring an immediacy to a long-ago event and connect us to these everyday men and women who lived it.

How long is Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated)?

Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated) by Rev. Theodore Gerrish is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated) aloud.

What Reading Level is Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated)?

Army Life in Chamberlain's 20th Maine (Expanded, Annotated) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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