Reluctant rebels : the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 / Kenneth W. Noe.

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Main Author: Noe, Kenneth W., 1957-
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
Confederate States of America. > Army > Military life.
Soldiers > Confederate States of America > History.
Soldiers > Confederate States of America > Social conditions.
Confederate States of America. > Army > Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
Confederate States of America > Social conditions.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Physical Description:xiv, 317 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: What they did not fight for
  • pt. 1. "When our rights were threatened"
  • Duty, honor, country : "Patriotism is a fine word for historians"
  • Slavery : "The principle cause of the war"
  • pt. 2. "Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil"
  • Women : "Do the best you can"
  • Hatred : "Vandal hordes"
  • Pay : "Fighting for money instead of their country"
  • pt. 3. "We are a band of brothers and native to the soil"
  • Religion : "Let us meet in heaven"
  • Comrades : "All my neighbor boys"
  • Weariness : "We have suffered enough"
  • Battle : "The elephant"
  • Appendix.