Fighting Means Killing : Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat /

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"War means fighting, and fighting means killing." Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared. The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first...

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Autor principal: Steplyk, Jonathan M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Soldiers > Psychology.
Psychological aspects.
Ethics.
Combat > Psychological aspects.
HISTORY > Military > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Military Personnel > psychology
Homicide > psychology
American Civil War
Soldiers > United States > Psychology > History > 19th century.
Combat > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect psychologique.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect moral.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Psychological aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Moral and ethical aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The things they carried: influences on Civil War soldiers and killing
  • Seeing the elephant: killing and the face of battle
  • Good execution: the language of killing
  • With bayonet and clubbed musket: killing in hand-to-hand combat
  • Hunters of men: sharpshooters and killing
  • Murder and mercy: the extremes of killing
  • Killing in black and white: race, combat, and hate.

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