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The Civil War Soldier A Historical Reader / edited by Michael Barton and Larry M. Logue.

De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist 2000-2013 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Logue, Larry M., 1947-
Barton, Michael, 1943-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Soldiers.
Social aspects.
Armed Forces--Military life.
Soldiers--Confederate States of America--History.
Soldiers--United States--History--19th century.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
United States.
United States--Confederate States of America.
Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
Confederate States of America. Army--History.
United States. Army--Military life--History--19th century.
United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States. Army.
Confederate States of America. Army.
Confederate States of America.
Local Subjects:
Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
Confederate States of America. Army--History.
United States. Army--Military life--History--19th century.
United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 515 pages)
Manufacture:
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Place of Publication:
New York : New York University Press, 2002.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Offering a host of diverse perspectives, The Civil War Soldier is the perfect introduction to this epic conflict, for the student, the historian, and the Civil War enthusiast alike. It features, under one cover, the most distinguished historians and writers on the Civil War.
In 1943, Bell Wiley's groundbreaking book Johnny Reb launched a new area of study: the history of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil War. This anthology brings together in one landmark volume over one hundred years of the best writing on the common soldier, from an account of life as a Confederate soldier written in 1882 to selections of Wiley's classic scholarship, and from the story of women who joined the army disguised as men to an essay on the soldier's art of dying.
Contents:
What manner of men / Bell Irvin Wiley
Have social historians lost the Civil War? : some preliminary demographic speculations / Maris A. Vinovskis
Who joined the Confederate Army? : soldiers, civilians, and communities in Mississippi / Larry M. Logue
Yankee recruits, conscripts, and illegal evaders / James W. Geary
To "don the breeches, and slay them with a will!" : a host of women soldiers / Elizabeth D. Leonard
On the march / Carlton McCarthy
The life of the common soldier in the Union Army, 1861-1865 / Fred A. Shannon
From finery to tatters / Bell Irvin Wiley
Fun, frolics, and firewater / James I. Robertson
The negro as a soldier / Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Heroes and cowards / Bell Irvin Wiley
The Confederate as a fighting man / David Donald
The rebels are barbarians / Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson
The infantry firefight / Paddy Griffith
Leaving their mark on the battlefield / Joseph T. Glatthaar
The nature of battle / Earl J. Hess
Trials of soul / Bell Irvin Wiley
A study of morale in Civil War soldiers / Pete Maslowski
Christian soldiers : the meaning of revivalism in the Confederate Army / Drew Gilpin Faust
From volunteer to soldier : the psychology of service / Reid Mitchell
Emotional responses to combat / Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reeves
Dangled over hell : the trauma of the Civil War / Eric T. Dean, Jr.
The values of Civil War soldiers / Michael Barton
Embattled courage / Gerald F. Linderman
On the altar of my country / James M. McPherson
Holding on / Earl J. Hess
The Civil War soldier and the art of dying / Drew Gilpin Faust.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-4356-4866-8
0-8147-2515-5
OCLC:
233534925

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