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Reluctant rebels : the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 / Kenneth W. Noe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noe, Kenneth W., 1957- author.
- Series:
- Civil War America (Series)
- Civil War America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
- Confederate States of America.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--History.
- Soldiers.
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? 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 fought. Noe refutes the claim that later enlisters were more likely to desert or perform poorly in battle and reassesses the argument that they were less ideologically savvy than their counterpart
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908850-4-3
- 979-88-9313-416-2
- 1-4696-0407-8
- 0-8078-9563-6
- OCLC:
- 656856254
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