Peter S. Carmichael
War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
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Peter S. Carmichael's new study explores the Civil War experience through the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South. He focuses on how soldiers thought and reveals how well-established notions of duty, morality, loyalty, and bravery were blurred by war. A pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world.
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 408 pages
\n Publication date: 28 February 2021
\n Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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The Civil War was a time of immense brutality and unpredictability for soldiers on both sides of the conflict. The soldiers had to endure long marches, intense fighting, and the constant threat of death. They were often separated from their families and faced their own dire circumstances.
Peter S. Carmichael's new study explores the totality of the Civil War experience through the examination of letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but on how they thought, revealing how well-established notions of duty, disobedience, morality, loyalty, and bravery were blurred by the war.
Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea of a common soldier and looks for common threads in their experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. He argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world.
Soldiering in the Civil War was never a state of being but a process of becoming. Carmichael's study provides a valuable insight into the lives of these soldiers and their experiences during this tumultuous period in American history.
\n Weight: 552g\n
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 31 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781469664033\n \n
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