Noe, Kenneth W., 1957-

Reluctant rebels the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 / [electronic resource] : Kenneth W. Noe. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010. - xiv, 317 p. : ill. - Civil War America . - Civil War America. .

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Confederate States of America. Army --Military life.
Confederate States of America. Army --Recruiting, enlistment, etc.


Soldiers--History.--Confederate States of America
Soldiers--Social conditions.--Confederate States of America


Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
United States--History--Social aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865


Electronic books.

E545 / .N64 2010

973.7/13