| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 515 pages) |
| Contents |
What manner of men / Bell Irvin Wiley -- Have social historians lost the Civil War? : some preliminary demographic speculations / Maris A. Vinovskis -- Who joined the Confederate Army? : soldiers, civilians, and communities in Mississippi / Larry M. Logue -- Yankee recruits, conscripts, and illegal evaders / James W. Geary -- To "don the breeches, and slay them with a will!" : a host of women soldiers / Elizabeth D. Leonard -- On the march / Carlton McCarthy -- The life of the common soldier in the Union Army, 1861-1865 / Fred A. Shannon -- From finery to tatters / Bell Irvin Wiley -- Fun, frolics, and firewater / James I. Robertson -- The negro as a soldier / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Heroes and cowards / Bell Irvin Wiley -- The Confederate as a fighting man / David Donald -- The rebels are barbarians / Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson -- The infantry firefight / Paddy Griffith -- Leaving their mark on the battlefield / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- The nature of battle / Earl J. Hess -- Trials of soul / Bell Irvin Wiley -- A study of morale in Civil War soldiers / Pete Maslowski -- Christian soldiers : the meaning of revivalism in the Confederate Army / Drew Gilpin Faust -- From volunteer to soldier : the psychology of service / Reid Mitchell -- Emotional responses to combat / Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reeves -- Dangled over hell : the trauma of the Civil War / Eric T. Dean, Jr. -- The values of Civil War soldiers / Michael Barton -- Embattled courage / Gerald F. Linderman -- On the altar of my country / James M. McPherson -- Holding on / Earl J. Hess -- The Civil War soldier and the art of dying / Drew Gilpin Faust |
| Summary |
This excellent collection of selections from leading scholars on who the soldiers were, how they lived, and why they fought is a fine introduction to years of research that seeks to answer that question |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Confederate States of America. Army -- History
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United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century
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Confederate States of America. Army -- Military life
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| SUBJECT |
Confederate States of America. Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00539981 |
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United States. Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00533532 |
| Subject |
Soldiers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History
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HISTORY.
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Armed Forces -- Military life
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Social aspects.
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Soldiers.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
United States.
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United States -- Confederate States of America.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barton, Michael, 1943- editor.
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Logue, Larry M., 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781435648661 |
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1435648668 |
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9780814725153 |
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0814725155 |
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0814798799 |
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9780814798799 |
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0814798802 |
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9780814798805 |
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