Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil WarFree Press, 1987 - 357 Seiten A haunting exploration of the psychosocial effects of the Civil War upon the soldiers who fought in it, using riveting first hand accounts of the personal conflicts behind the historic battles culled from the diaries of Union and Confederate soldiers. 16 pages of photographs. |
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... officers . " If he thought , how- ever , that informing them of the deference due would dissolve their antagonism to orders , he was grievously mistaken . Men in- clined to resist officers in general knew that their own officers were ...
... officers . " If he thought , how- ever , that informing them of the deference due would dissolve their antagonism to orders , he was grievously mistaken . Men in- clined to resist officers in general knew that their own officers were ...
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... officer weakness and a shallow appeal for sympathy . 34 The effort of hard - pressed officers to establish their courage as the essential link between command and compliance was shaped by the patterns of indiscipline confronting them ...
... officer weakness and a shallow appeal for sympathy . 34 The effort of hard - pressed officers to establish their courage as the essential link between command and compliance was shaped by the patterns of indiscipline confronting them ...
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... officers found in them causal connection and , de- spairing of army inefficiency , reconciled themselves to the initi- atives of the rank - and - file . In any case , many officers recognized in changing practices , whatever their moral ...
... officers found in them causal connection and , de- spairing of army inefficiency , reconciled themselves to the initi- atives of the rank - and - file . In any case , many officers recognized in changing practices , whatever their moral ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
PART ONE COURAGES | 5 |
Courage at the Core | 7 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War Gerald Linderman Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2008 |
Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War Gerald Linderman Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1989 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alpheus Williams Ambrose Bierce army artillery Atlanta campaign Bardeen battle battlefield Beatty became began Blackford Brigade Bruce Catton Bull bullets camp campaign captain Carter Casler cavalry charge Civil War soldiers civilian colonel combat command Company comrades Confederate soldiers courage coward dead death deserters diers discipline Dooley duty Emphasis in original enemy enlisted experience fear Federal felt fight fire fought Francis Amasa Walker Fredericksburg friends Galwey George George Stevens Gettysburg God's Grant Hinman honor hospital Hunter Jackson James John John Esten Cooke killed later less lieutenant Lyman marched Mary Livermore Massachusetts McCarthy McClellan military never Nisbet Northern officers Ohio orders peace Peninsula campaign Poague Press prisoners ranks realized regiment remained Robert Strong seemed sharpshooters Sherman shot side sight Southern Stiles Stonewall Stonewall Brigade Stonewall Jackson thought trenches Ulysses Grant Union Army Union soldiers veterans Virginia volunteers war's warfare Washington Davis Weld Wilkeson wounded wrote York