Anyone hoping to understand what motivated soldiers in that horrific conflict should welcome James M. McPherson's For Cause and Comrades. McPherson uses McPherson uses letters and diaries of more than a thousand men to explore how religion, ideology, notions about honor and manhood, pressure from home, and hatred for the enemy contributed to a quite remarkable willingness to bltadwin.ru by: For Cause and Comrades Summary. Next. Preface. To a greater degree than in any other war, American Civil War soldiers’ letters and diaries provide ample evidence for their motivations to enlist in the war and to fight. Historian James McPherson has studied the writings of 1, soldiers, both Union and Confederate, in order to tell the story of why they fought—in their own words, whenever possible. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is a nonfiction book by James M. McPherson. McPherson has taught at Princeton since and written numerous books on the American Civil War, including Battle Cry of Freedom, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History. After several instances of visiting Civil War battlefields and finding himself unable to satisfactorily answer why so .
For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson. Binding: Hardcover. Weight: Lbs. Product Group: Book. Istextbook: Yes. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson Readable copy. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by McPherson, James M. available in Hardcover on bltadwin.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent.
↑ James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (), p. ix. "In both the Union and Confederate samples, foreign-born soldiers are substantially underrepresented. In the Union sample only 9 percent of the men were born abroad compared with 24 percent of all Union soldiers. For Cause and Comrades is a quest by historian James McPherson to understand why the Civil War soldiers fought the Civil War and why they fought as intensely and for as long as they did. The Civil War is unusual not only in American history, but in world history as well for the unusual intensity and carnage of the war. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. By James McPherson. New York: Oxford University Press, , Pp. xv, James McPherson’s enjoyable work For Cause and Comrades addresses the motivations of Civil War officers and soldiers on both sides of the war. Relying upon letters home written largely from front-line units, he delved into initial motivation for war, sustaining motivation, and combat motivation.
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