Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War - Hardcover

Gerald-f-linderman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0029197600 ISBN 13: 9780029197608

Verlag: Free Press, 1987

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1987 Free Press hardcover, Gerald F. Linderman (The World within War). Linderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now.

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Linderman, history professor at the University of Michigan, describes the unreasonably high standards of morality prevalent in the nation at the start of the Civil War, citing for example a letter from General Custer assuring his wife that he has "not uttered a single oath, nor blasphemed, even in thought." According to Linderman, it was assumed on both sides that "the application of the moral values to the struggle would determine both the forms and the result of the war." By 1865 those soldiers who survived had learned otherwise. In this deep inquiry into the nature of courage (and cowardice) as defined by soldiers and civilians North and South, the author traces the breakdown of traditional values, the changing behavior of the soldiers and the "reconceptualization" of the war by veterans in their later years. Drawing on letters and memoirs, he reveals the common tendency of soldiers who became disillusioned during the fighting to experience an amazing reversion in postwar years to the blind idealism with which they originally went to war. Ironically, notes Linderman, the soldiers who went into the Spanish-American War carried the same values as those of 1861.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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• Verlag: Free Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0029197600
• ISBN 13: 9780029197608
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
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