Why confederates fought [[electronic resource] ] : family and nation in Civil War Virginia / / Aaron Sheehan-Dean

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822296703321
• Autore: Sheehan-Dean Aaron Charles
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-4696-0520-1; 0-8078-8765-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Collana: Civil War America
• Disciplina: 975.5/03
• Soggetti: Soldiers - Virginia - Social conditions - 19th century; Soldiers - Family relationships - Virginia - History - 19th century; Families - Virginia - History - 19th century; Nationalism - Virginia - History - 19th century; Social classes - Virginia - History - 19th century; War and society - Virginia - History - 19th century; Nationalism - Confederate States of America - History; Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects; Virginia Social conditions 19th century; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects
• 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 (p. [255]-283) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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