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The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (New Directions in Southern History)
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by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Sales Rank: 142040
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List Price: $40.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 272 pages
Published by: University Press of Kentucky December 22, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0813124131
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813124131
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 12.8 ounces
From Booklist
The ten essays in the third volume of the New Directions in Southern History series deal with such topics as white Union soldiers' views on Slavery and race, Confederate perceptions of the enemy, religious compromises and conflicts, and Pennsylvania soldiers' reactions to the antiwar movement. Relying on thousands of diaries and letters written by soldiers and their families, as well as evidence gathered from regimental newspapers, the essays show, as Sheehan-Dean says in the introduction, that "soldiers on both sides were autonomous historical actors." He indicates that these essays show the war as a subject of study, holding real promise for new and insightful research, and that by exploring the connections between the experience of the war and the greater world of nineteenth--century America, they demonstrate how rewarding that research can be. Readers would think that with all the books written on this subject, there would be nothing new to reveal, but these essays use the soldiers' personal accounts to examine their beliefs and practices, creating a most readable treatment of this horrendous conflict. George Cohen
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North Carolina Historical Review
"This new collection of essays focusing on the experiences of Northern and Southern common soldiers during the Civil War is a welcome addition to the growing recent literature on this topicThis is a strong collection of essays. The anthology demonstrates that the military history of the Civil War, an ever-relevant and interesting subject, is moving in exciting new directions."
Reader Reviews
As a non-American, my knowledge of the American Civil War is very limited. To be quite honest; I don't know a whole lot of it, besides that the two sides were the Union in the north with soldiers wearing blue uniforms, and the Confederacy in the south with soldiers dressed in gray. The slave issue wasn't the only matter fought over - even though it was obviously a very important matter indeed - and throughout the war several of the great battles of military history were fought, for instance the battle at Gettysburg, which also became the turning point of the war. This is, in a nutshell, basically all I knew and thought of whenever someone mentioned the American Civil War. (Okay, fine... I also thought of Patrick Swayze's character Orry Main from TV-series North and South. Well, actually, the one I really thought of was the lady he secretly dated. And especially her cleavage. But don't blame me, I was young and impressionable.) This highly limited knowledge - combined with the fact that when it comes to books about war and war history I find it much more stimulating to read about the ones who actually fought the war instead of what tactics the leaders used and the politics behind their decisions - resulted in me eagerly anticipating to get started on The View From the Ground. Because this book does indeed focus on the soldiers who were maimed and killed on the battlefields. The reader is invited to share the thoughts and feelings of these men about such issues as slaves and race relations, the image of the enemy, the conflict at large, the civilian population, and the multitude of religious and moral dilemmas that soldiers of faith had to deal with. At large, all ten contributions are highly interesting; especially since the reader realizes that the war wasn't exclusively about the issue of slaves and that many of the Union soldiers didn't care too much either about the non-whites. However, the two contributions that really stand out are David W. Rolfs' "No Nearer Heaven Not but Rather Farther Off: The Religious Compromises and Conflicts of Northern Soldiers" and Kent T. Dollar's "Strangers in a Strange Land: Christian Soldiers in the Early Months of the Civil War", two essays dealing with the bizarre compromise where faithful Christians were able to justify the ritualized and sanctioned mass-killings that active warfare, when it comes down to it, actually means. The book contains no photographs or illustrations whatsoever, and that's definitely most unfortunate.
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