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Autore: | Noe Kenneth W. <1957-> |
Titolo: | Reluctant rebels [[electronic resource] ] : the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 / / Kenneth W. Noe |
Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973.7/13 |
Soggetto topico: | Soldiers - Confederate States of America - History |
Soldiers - Confederate States of America - Social conditions | |
Soggetto geografico: | Confederate States of America Social conditions |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Reluctant rebels |
ISBN: | 1-4696-0407-8 |
0-8078-9563-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785199403321 |
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