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The vacant chair : the Northern soldier leaves home /
In many ways, the Northern soldier in the Civil War fought as if he had never left home. On campsites and battlefields, the Union volunteer adapted to military life with attitudes shaped by networks of family relationships, in units of men from the same hometown. Understanding these links between th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[1995, 1993]
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In many ways, the Northern soldier in the Civil War fought as if he had never left home. On campsites and battlefields, the Union volunteer adapted to military life with attitudes shaped by networks of family relationships, in units of men from the same hometown. Understanding these links between the homes the troops left behind and the war they had to fight, writes Reid Mitchell, offers critical insight into how they thought, fought, and persevered through four bloody years of combat. In The Vacant Chair, Mitchell draws on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of common soldiers to show how mid-ni. |
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| Item Description: | Reprint. Originally published: 1993. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199938193 0199938199 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |