Why Confederates Fought Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia 1st Edition by Aaron Sheehan Dean ISBN ‎ 0807831581 978-0807831588

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ISBN 10:  ‎ 0807831581 

ISBN 13: 978-0807831588

Author: Aaron Sheehan-Dean 

In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers–even those who were nonslaveholders–adapted their vision of the war’s purpose to remain committed Confederates.

Sheehan-Dean challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy because their class interests were not being met. Instead he argues that Virginia soldiers continued to be motivated by the profound emotional connection between military service and the protection of home and family, even as the war dragged on. The experience of fighting, explains Sheehan-Dean, redefined southern manhood and family relations, established the basis for postwar race and class relations, and transformed the shape of Virginia itself. He concludes that Virginians’ experience of the Civil War offers important lessons about the reasons we fight wars and the ways that those reasons can change over time.

Table of contents: 

PART I. Conflict & Collaboration

• Chapter 1: Building the Plain People’s Confederacy

• Chapter 2: A Nation of Their Own

PART II. The Crucible of War

• Chapter 3: The Ardor of Patriotism

• Chapter 4: War in Earnest

• Chapter 5: The Family War

PART III. War Without End

• Chapter 6: The Cost of Independence

• Chapter 7: The Fall of the Confederacy

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