Reluctant rebels [electronic resource] : the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 / Kenneth W. Noe.

By: Noe, Kenneth W, 1957-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Civil War AmericaPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010Description: xiv, 317 p. : illSubject(s): Confederate States of America. Army -- Military life | Confederate States of America. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc | Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History | Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions | Confederate States of America -- Social conditions | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7/13 LOC classification: E545 | .N64 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: What they did not fight for -- pt. 1. "When our rights were threatened" -- Duty, honor, country : "Patriotism is a fine word for historians" -- Slavery : "The principle cause of the war" -- pt. 2. "Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil" -- Women : "Do the best you can" -- Hatred : "Vandal hordes" -- Pay : "Fighting for money instead of their country" -- pt. 3. "We are a band of brothers and native to the soil" -- Religion : "Let us meet in heaven" -- Comrades : "All my neighbor boys" -- Weariness : "We have suffered enough" -- Battle : "The elephant" -- Appendix.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: What they did not fight for -- pt. 1. "When our rights were threatened" -- Duty, honor, country : "Patriotism is a fine word for historians" -- Slavery : "The principle cause of the war" -- pt. 2. "Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil" -- Women : "Do the best you can" -- Hatred : "Vandal hordes" -- Pay : "Fighting for money instead of their country" -- pt. 3. "We are a band of brothers and native to the soil" -- Religion : "Let us meet in heaven" -- Comrades : "All my neighbor boys" -- Weariness : "We have suffered enough" -- Battle : "The elephant" -- Appendix.

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