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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781314003321

Autore

Glatthaar Joseph T. <1956->

Titolo

Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia [[electronic resource] ] : a statistical portrait of the troops who served under Robert E. Lee / / Joseph T. Glatthaar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4696-0305-5

0-8078-7786-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Civil War America

Disciplina

973.7/42

Soggetti

Soldiers - Confederate States of America

Soldiers - Confederate States of America - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The army -- The infantry -- The cavalry -- The artillery -- Northern- and foreign-born soldiers -- Upper and lower south -- Officers and enlisted men -- Year of enlistment -- Age -- Marriage and fatherhood -- Economic class -- Slaveholding.

Sommario/riassunto

In this sophisticated quantitative study, Joseph T. Glatthaar provides a comprehensive narrative and statistical analysis of many key aspects of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Serving as a companion to Glatthaar's General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse, this book presents Glatthaar's supporting data and major conclusions in extensive and extraordinary detail.While gathering research materials for General Lee's Army, Glatthaar compiled quantitative data on the background and service of 600 randomly selected soldiers--150 artillerists, 150 cavalrym