Themes of the American Civil War

Victorian culture, and the corollary of this attitude for the initial motivation of Civil War volunteers.
17.
Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank The Common Soldier of the Union (Baton Rouge, LA, p. Thomas R. Bright, Yankees in Arms The Civil War as a Personal Experience Civil War
History 19 (1973), pp. For an insight into Confederate organizational problems in the first months of the war see
Thomas L. Connelly, Army of the Heartland The Army of Tennessee, 1861–1862 (Baton Rouge,
LA, 1967), pp. William T. Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman (1875, repr. New York, p. 178. For similar remarks concerning the Confederate troops in northern Virginia around the same time see General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations during the
Civil War (1874, repr. New York, 1990), p. Frank L. Richardson, The War as I Saw it Louisiana Historical Quarterly 2 (1923), p. Ruben A. Pierson’s letter to his wife, from Camp Moore, July 21, 1861, Pierson Family Papers,
Kuntz Collection, Howard Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
22.
On prewar American military experience and the debate over the Southern martial tradition see Edward M. Coffman, The Old Army A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime,
1784–1898 (New York, 1986); Marcus Cunliffe, Soldiers and Civilians The Martial Spirit in
America, 1775–1865 (London, 1968); John Hope Franklin, The Militant South (Cambridge,
MA, 1956); R. Don Higginbotham, The Martial Spirit in the Antebellum South Some Further Speculations in a National Context Journal of Southern History 58 (1992), pp. Robert E. May, “Dixie’s Martial Image A Continuing Historical Enigma Historian 60 (pp. 213–34; William K. Riker, Soldiers of the States The Role of the National Guard in American
Democracy (Washington, DC, Pete Maslowski, A Study of Morale in Civil War Soldiers Military Affairs 34 (1970), p. 128.
24.
Deavenport Diary/memoir, p. 6, TSLA. Fora firsthand account of life in the camps of Union and Confederate armies see Commager,
Blue and the Gray, pp. 267–337, 407–516. Bell Wiley’s works The Life of Billy Yank and
The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (Baton Rouge, LA, 1943) are extremely informative, and have been supplemented by James I. Robertson, Soldiers: Blue
and Gray (New York, 1988). There are no works which explicitly compare Civil War soldiers to their contemporaries or to other soldiers, although John R. Elting, Swords around
a Throne Napoleon’s Grande Armée (London, 1989), and JG. Fuller, Troop Morale and
Popular Culture in the British and Dominion Armies, 1914–1918 (London, 1990), provide useful material for general comparisons.
26.
Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia in
Van Doren Stern, Soldier Life, p. William J. Miller, The Training of an Army Camp Curtain and the North’s Civil War
(Shippensburg, PA, 1990), p. General Orders, No. 62, Fifth Division, Army of the Tennessee, July 24, 1862, War of the
Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
(Washington, DC, 1880–1901), Series 1, Vol. XVII, Part 2, p. 119. (All subsequent references to Series Mark A. Weitz, Drill, Training, and the Combat Performance of the Civil War Soldier:
Dispelling the Myth of the Poor Soldier, Great Fighter Journal of Military History 42 (pp. 263–89. Further details on discipline and casualties after the first year of the war can be found in battle histories such as Peter Cozzens, No Better Place to Die The Battle of Stones

Download 2.25 Mb.

Share with your friends: