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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Textbooks, Education | | | Author: | James M. McPherson | | Format: | Hardcover | | | Publisher: | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand | | Educational Level: | -- | | | ISBN-10: | 0195090233 | | Publication Year: | 1997 | | | ISBN-13: | 9780195090239 | | Condition: | -- | | | Product Type: | -- | | | | | | Category: | History | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Description For Cause and Comrades: Why Soldiers Fought the Civil War
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Buy SKU: 30023922Why did the conventional wisdom - that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses - not hold true in the Civil War?. It is to this question - why did they fight - that James M. McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war.| Shipping Method | Shipping Timeframe | Shipping Rate | | Other (Budget) | Usually Ships in 1 to 2 business days
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| Size | | Length: | 237 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in. | | Width: | 6.3 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 18.4 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | Why did the conventional wisdom - that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses - not hold true in the Civil War?. It is to this question - why did they fight - that James M. McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war.
| | Industry reviews | "How lucky we are that Mr. McPherson, at the peak of his career, choose to go back to the sources. Not many senior scholars do that. More is the pity."
Wall Street Journal - Stephen E. Ambrose (02/21/1997)
"Mcpherson's newest addition to a long roster of books is valuable not only for Civil aficionados but for students of military history generally."
Baranczak
"...[T]he harsh experience of battle did not in general dilute idealistic motives. Instead it enhanced the soldiers' determination to see their purposes fulfilled. Unlike so many combatants in this century's conflicts, Civil War soldiers did not come to regard the very words 'duty,' 'honor,' 'cause,' 'comradeship' and 'glory' with disdain.
Mr. McPherson is an instructive guide in all of this. Perceptions common to the 20th century, he cogently argues, do not serve well toward understanding the combat motivations of 1861-65. Americans of that era differed so profoundly from most of us that we must marvel when, visiting Fredericksburg, we envisage the Union charge up Marye's Heights on Dec. 13, 1862. Or when, at Gettysburg, we recall the Confederate march across the shallow valley from Seminary to Cemetery Ridge. How could so many thousands bring themselves to do such things? Clearly, the world of combat that Mr. McPherson leads us through is very different from our own. And so, in the background of his study, there always lurks the troubling question whether our generation, or any foreseeable generation, could dedicate itself to any cause whatever with the willingness that the Civil War generation displayed."
New York Times Book Review - Russell F. Weigley (03/23/1997)
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