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Reluctant Rebels : The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861 /
Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause, rekindling the debate over who these later enlistees were, why they joined, and why they stayed and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What they did not fight for
- pt. 1. "When our rights were threatened"
- Duty, honor, country : "Patriotism is a fine word for historians"
- Slavery : "The principle cause of the war"
- pt. 2. "Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil"
- Women : "Do the best you can"
- Hatred : "Vandal hordes"
- Pay : "Fighting for money instead of their country"
- pt. 3. "We are a band of brothers and native to the soil"
- Religion : "Let us meet in heaven"
- Comrades : "All my neighbor boys"
- Weariness : "We have suffered enough"
- Battle : "The elephant"
- Appendix.