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Why confederates fought : family and nation in Civil War Virginia / Aaron Sheehan-Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheehan-Dean, Aaron Charles.
- Series:
- Civil War America.
- Civil War America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--Virginia--Social conditions--19th century.
- Soldiers.
- Soldiers--Family relationships--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Families--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Families.
- Nationalism--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Nationalism.
- Social classes--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Social classes.
- War and society--Virginia--History--19th century.
- War and society.
- Nationalism--Confederate States of America--History.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--Social conditions--19th century.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who were nonslaveholders--adapted their vision of the war's purpose to remain committed Confederates. Sheehan-Dean challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy because their class interests were not being met. Instead h
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Choosing War; PART I. CONFLICT & COLLABORATION; 1 Building the Plain People's Confederacy: January-June 1861; 2 A Nation of Their Own: July 1861-March 1862; PART II. THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR; 3 The Ardor of Patriotism: April-July 1862; 4 War in Earnest: August-December 1862; 5 The Family War: January-December 1863; PART III. WAR WITHOUT END; 6 The Cost of Independence: January-June 1864; 7 The Fall of the Confederacy: July 1864-March 1865; Epilogue: Swallowing the Elephant: Toward the New South; Appendix: Methodology; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D
- EF; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-269-4
- 979-88-908817-5-5
- 1-4696-0520-1
- 0-8078-8765-X
- OCLC:
- 658004298
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