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Why confederates fought : family and nation in Civil War Virginia /

In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. He challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sheehan-Dean, Aaron Charles (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Conflict & collaboration
  • Building the plain people's Confederacy : January-June 1861
  • A nation of their own : July 1861-March 1862
  • pt. 2. The crucible of war
  • The ardor of patriotism : April-July 1862
  • War in earnest : August-December 1862
  • The family war : January-December 1863
  • pt. 3. War without end
  • The cost of independence : January-June 1864
  • The fall of the Confederacy : July 1864-March 1865
  • Epilogue : Swallowing the elephant : toward the new South.