"It is a commonplace to observe that war is the ultimate test of the `manhood' of soldiers. But in the Civil War---as probably in all wars--- the meaning of manhood was contested, as Lorien Foote make
Finalist for the 2011 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize "A seminal work. . . . One of the best examples of new, sophisticated scholarship on the social history of Civil War soldiers."--The Journal of South
During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight creat
Highlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field,So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War-era Union. Compil
Highlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field,So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War-era Union. Compil
