Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
A List of the Official Publications of the Confederate States Government in the Virginia State Library and the Library of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Library of the Late Major William H. Lambert of Philadelphia .. to be Sold ... at the Anderson Galleries
Author: William Harrison LambertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1863
Author: Confederate States of America. War DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages :
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Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1864
Author: Confederate States of America. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Buff Facings and Gilt Buttons
Author: J. Boone BartholomeesPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570032202
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The staff system of the Army of Northern Virginia demonstrates one of the peculiar traits of the Civil War. That war occurred on a cusp of military history - it had elements both ancient and modern, and it reflected the struggle of soldiers trying to reconcile the two. Civil War military institutions had their roots firmly planted in the traditions and doctrine of the past while they confronted modern problems. The story of the disconnection between linear tactics that would have been recognizable to either Alexander or Frederick the Great and deadly rifled muskets is familiar. The story of ill-trained and ill-prepared staffs trying to coordinate all the intricate details of a vast, semimodern army operating in a huge theater of war with doctrine and procedures that would soon be if they were not already outmoded is less familiar. That is the story of staff work in the Army of Northern Virginia.
The War for the Common Soldier
Author: Peter S. CarmichaelPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
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. Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.
Lee's Miserables
Author: J. Tracy PowerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Never did so large a proportion of the American population leave home for an extended period and produce such a detailed record of its experiences in the form of correspondence, diaries, and other papers as during the Civil War. Based on research in more than 1,200 wartime letters and diaries by more than 400 Confederate officers and enlisted men, this book offers a compelling social history of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during its final year, from May 1864 to April 1865. Organized in a chronological framework, the book uses the words of the soldiers themselves to provide a view of the army's experiences in camp, on the march, in combat, and under siege--from the battles in the Wilderness to the final retreat to Appomattox. It sheds new light on such questions as the state of morale in the army, the causes of desertion, ties between the army and the home front, the debate over arming black men in the Confederacy, and the causes of Confederate defeat. Remarkably rich and detailed, Lee's Miserables offers a fresh look at one of the most-studied Civil War armies.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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