Военная история / The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies

Название: The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Автор: Peter S. Carmichael
Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press
Год: 2018
Страниц: 405
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 11 MB

How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war.