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