Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil WarLinderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now. |
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... command positions, was that the forth- coming conflict would in its essence be a contest between gentle- men. Such convictions created for the soldier a task unlike that imposed by the requisites of courage. Assumed to be honorable, 11 ...
... command positions, was that the forth- coming conflict would in its essence be a contest between gentle- men. Such convictions created for the soldier a task unlike that imposed by the requisites of courage. Assumed to be honorable, 11 ...
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... command of Stonewall Jackson. Jackson's men treated the Federals "like gentlemen"—"Not by a word or expression did they give us any indications that we were captives and they the captors"—and took their paroles. Their home state ...
... command of Stonewall Jackson. Jackson's men treated the Federals "like gentlemen"—"Not by a word or expression did they give us any indications that we were captives and they the captors"—and took their paroles. Their home state ...
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... command frightened John Dooley. The force of Union round shot seemed to multiply as it splintered rocks and sent their fragments hurtling at the Confederates; the noise of the bombardment magnified as it re- sounded from ridge to ridge ...
... command frightened John Dooley. The force of Union round shot seemed to multiply as it splintered rocks and sent their fragments hurtling at the Confederates; the noise of the bombardment magnified as it re- sounded from ridge to ridge ...
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Contents
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The Uses of Courage | 61 |
Courage and Civilian Society | 80 |
PART TWO A PERILOUS EDUCATION | 111 |
Unexpected Adversaries | 113 |
The New Severity | 169 |
A Warfare of Terror | 180 |
Unraveling Ties | 216 |
Disillusionment | 240 |
Epilogue | 266 |
DRAMATIS PERSONAE | 298 |
NOTES | 315 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 335 |
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Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War Gerald Linderman No preview available - 1989 |
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