The view from the ground : experiences of Civil War soldiers /

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With an Afterword by Joseph T. Glatthaar The View from the Ground brings together the perspectives of Civil War soldiers on all aspects of the conflict, revealing as much about nineteenth-century America as it does about the war itself. The contributors investigate the issues engaged by soldiers dur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sheehan-Dean, Aaron Charles (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007.
Series:New directions in southern history.
Subjects:
United States. > Army > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Confederate States of America. > Army > History.
United States. > Army > Military life > History > 19th century.
Confederate States of America. > Army > Military life > History.
États-Unis. > Army > Histoire > Guerre de Sécession, 1861-1865.
Confederate States of America. > Army
United States. > Army
1800-1899
Soldiers > United States > History > 19th century.
Soldiers > Confederate States of America > History.
Soldiers > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Soldiers > Confederate States of America > Social conditions.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Armed Forces > Military life
Social aspects
Soldiers
Soldiers > Social conditions
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
United States
United States > Confederate States of America
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The blue and the gray in black and white : assessing the scholarship on Civil War soldiers / Aaron Sheehan-Dean
  • A "vexed question" : white Union soldiers on slavery and race / Chandra Manning
  • A brother's war : exploring Confederate perceptions of the enemy / Jason Phillips
  • "The army is not near so much demoralized as the country is" : soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate home front / Lisa Laskin
  • "No nearer heaven now but rather farther off" : the religious compromises and conflicts of northern soldiers / David W. Rolfs
  • "Strangers in a strange land" : Christian soldiers in the early months of the Civil War / Kent T. Dollar
  • "A viler enemy in our rear" : Pennsylvania soldiers confront the North's antiwar movement / Timothy J. Orr
  • Popular sovereignty in the Confederate Army : the case of Colonel John Marshall and the Fourth Texas Infantry Regiment / Charles E. Brooks
  • "Is not the glory enough to give us all a share?" : an analysis of competing memories of the Battle of the Crater / Kevin M. Levin.

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