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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Steplyk, Jonathan M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2018.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Combat > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century.
Soldiers > United States > Psychology > History > 19th century.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > Military > General.
Combat > Psychological aspects.
Ethics.
Psychological aspects.
Soldiers > Psychology.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Psychological aspects.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect moral.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect psychologique.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Murder and Mercy: The Extremes of Killing
  • Killing in Black and White: Race, Combat, and Hate.

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