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Author : Ella Lonn
Release : 1928
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Desertion During the Civil War by : Ella Lonn
Download or read book Desertion During the Civil War written by Ella Lonn. This book was released on 1928. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark A. Weitz
Release : 2005-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 552/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Higher Duty by : Mark A. Weitz
Download or read book A Higher Duty written by Mark A. Weitz. This book was released on 2005-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the most important issues associated with Confederate desertion. How many soldiers actually deserted, when did they desert, and why? What does Confederate desertion say about Confederate nationalism and the war effort? Mark A. Weitz has taken his argument beyond the obvious reasons for desertion?that war is a horrific and cruel experience?and examined the emotional and psychological reasons that might induce a soldier to desert. Just as loyalty to his fellow soldiers might influence a man to charge into a hail of lead, loyalty to his wife and family could also lead him to risk a firing squad in order to return home.
Author : Mark A. Weitz
Release : 2005-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 974/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis More Damning Than Slaughter by : Mark A. Weitz
Download or read book More Damning Than Slaughter written by Mark A. Weitz. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coupled with problems such as speculation, food and clothing shortages, conscription, taxation, and a pervasive focus on the protection of local interests, desertion started as a military problem and spilled over into the civilian world. Fostered by a military culture that treated absenteeism leniently early in the war, desertion steadily increased and by 1863 reached epidemic proportions. A Union policy that permitted Confederate deserters to swear allegiance to the Union and then return home encouraged desertion. Equally important in persuading men to desert was the direct appeal from loved ones on the home front - letters from wives begging soldiers to come home for harvests, births, and other events.".
Author : Ella Lonn
Release : 2016-12-22
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Book Rating : 746/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Desertion During the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated) by : Ella Lonn
Download or read book Desertion During the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated) written by Ella Lonn. This book was released on 2016-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the great classic work on desertions during the American Civil War. While you might be forgiven for expecting a dry recitation of statistics, it is a fascinating look at the problems and realities of deserters for both sides during the conflict.Dr. Lonn looks at the reasons for desertion, how deserters were hunted, how they hid, and how they were used by the enemy among other topics. She even covers the places where hundreds of deserters banded together into criminal enterprises.A huge drain for the Union and the Confederacy, the overall impact on both is examined here. Throughout, Lonn tells the story like a novelist, despite including important statistics.Every examination of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.
Author : Theodore McLauchlin
Release : 2020-12-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 952/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Desertion by : Theodore McLauchlin
Download or read book Desertion written by Theodore McLauchlin. This book was released on 2020-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore McLauchlin's Desertion examines the personal and political factors behind soldiers' choices to stay in their unit or abandon their cause. He explores what might spur widespread desertion in a given group, how some armed groups manage to keep their soldiers fighting over long periods, and how committed soldiers are to their causes and their comrades. To answer these questions, McLauchlin focuses on combatants in military units during the Spanish Civil War. He pushes against the preconception that individual soldiers' motivations are either personal or political, either selfish or ideological. Instead, he draws together the personal and the political, showing how soldiers come to trust each other—or not. Desertion demonstrates how the armed groups that hold together and survive are those that foster interpersonal connections, allowing soldiers the opportunity to prove their commitment to the fight. McLauchlin argues that trust keeps soldiers in the fray, mistrust pushes them to leave, and political beliefs and military practices shape both. Desertion brings the reader into the world of soldiers and rigorously tests the factors underlying desertion. It asks, honestly and without judgment, what would you do in an army in a civil war? Would you stand and fight? Would you try to run away? And what if you found yourself fighting for a cause you no longer believe in or never did in the first place?
