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The Civil War soldier : a historical reader /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barton, Michael, 1943- (Editor ), Logue, Larry M., 1947- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.