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Author:   Michael Barton ,  Larry M. Logue
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.848kg
ISBN:  

9780814798799

ISBN 10:   0814798799
Pages:   515
Publication Date:   01 September 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"1 What Manner of Men 2 Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? 3 Who Joined the Confederate Army? 4 Yankee Recruits, Conscripts, and Illegal Evaders 5 To ""Don the Breeches, and Slay Them with a Will!"" 6 On the March 7 The Life of the Common Soldier in the Union Army, 1861-1865 8 From Finery to Tatters 9 Fun, Frolics, and Firewater 10 The Negro as a Soldier 11 Heroes and Cowards 12 The Confederate as a Fighting Man 13 The Rebels Are Barbarians 14 The Infantry Firefight 15 Leaving Their Mark on the Battlefield 16 The Nature of Battle 17 Trials of Soul 18 A Study of Morale in Civil War Soldiers 19 Christian Soldiers 20 From Volunteer to Soldier 21 Emotional Responses to Combat 22 ""Dangled over Hell"" 23 The Values of Civil War Soldiers 24 Embattled Courage 25 On the Altar of My Country 26 Holding On 27 The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying"

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<p> An extremely valuable book. . . . Any clinician willing to let him or herself be challenged by competing ideas will find this an extremely stimulating volume. -Paul Wachtel, author of Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World

(<p> This is a fine collection which lends itself to classroom use and to the edification of non-specialists. )-( Indiana Magazine of History ), ()

<p> This is a fine collection which lends itself to classroom use and to the edification of non-specialists. - Indiana Magazine of History ,

<p> This is a fine collection which lends itself to classroom use and to the edification of non-specialists.

Author Information

Michael Barton is professor of American studies and social science at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg and author of Goodmen: The Character of Civil War Soldiers. Logue and Barton are co-editors of The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader (NYU Press, 2002). Larry Logue is Professor of History and Political Science at Mississippi College.

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