Why soldiers fought
Berkhofer Jr. McPherson knows soldiers thought many things; the immense variety of soldiers' experiences is evident in his book.
In making this argument he takes on Wiley and Linderman, insisting that "ideological motifs almost leap from many pages" of soldiers' diaries and letters Approximatelyblack soldiers wore the blue; 37, lost their lives.
Glenn W. But while soldiers honestly worked hard to get their feelings accurately down on paper, sometimes even they had trouble figuring it all out.
And all too often young soldiers—brave and true boys—give their lives for no good reason at all.
Why soldiers fought
Southerners accused northerners of abolitionism and of representing an industrialized, impersonal, bureaucratic state. It becomes almost like your guardian angel. Hailing from the industrial cities of the North, they ranged from unskilled laborers to engineers, hairdressers, mechanics, and even college professors. This collection is designed to demonstrate the following historical understandings: Ideas such as liberty, self-government, honor, duty, and manhood governed the decision-making of Civil War soldiers. Their families knew each other. Louis," he recorded in his diary. This tribe we had enlisted in was not, it turned out, a force for good or liberation or anything of that kind. Hess argues strongly that ideology motivated northerners.The initial taste of combat winnowed many regiments, with some soldiers drifting to the rear in search of noncombatant duties. Yet the Union and Confederate armies mobilized three million men. If nothing else, the excursion to the Manassas battlefield gave the Alabama boys reason to ponder war and its grim realities.
Anything, however, as I have often said, to crush the rebellion and give us back the Union with all its stars. Shepherd of Eufaula, Alabama, who was nearly 75 years old. Facts Matter. My favourite example of this transformation of attitude toward slavery is a young private in the rd Ohio, who wrote several letters home in the early months of after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Many, many soldiers were intensely aware of the issues at stake in the war and passionately concerned about them.