Chapter 3. Who Joined the Confederate Army?

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Who Soldiers Were
6. Chapter 1. What Manner of Men 9
7. Chapter 2. Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? 33
8. Chapter 3. Who Joined the Confederate Army? 44
9. Chapter 4. Yankee Recruits, Conscripts, and Illegal Evaders 57
10. Chapter 5. To “Don the Breeches, and Slay Them with a Will!” 69
11. Part II. How Soldiers Lived
12. Chapter 6. On the March 85
13. Chapter 7. The Life of the Common Soldier in the Union Army, 1861–1865 92
14. Chapter 8. From Finery to Tatters 108
15. Chapter 9. Fun, Frolics, and Firewater 122
16. Part III. How Soldiers Fought
17. Chapter 10. The Negro as a Soldier 143
18. Chapter 11. Heroes and Cowards 155
19. Chapter 12. The Confederate as a Fighting Man 176
20. Chapter 13. The Rebels Are Barbarians 190
21. Chapter 14. The Infantry Firefight 199
22. Chapter 15. Leaving Their Mark on the Battlefield 228
23. Chapter 16. The Nature of Battle 260
24. Part IV. How Soldiers Felt
25. Chapter 17. Trials of Soul 283
26. Chapter 18. A Study of Morale in Civil War Soldiers 312
27. Chapter 19. Christian Soldiers 327
28. Chapter 20. From Volunteer to Soldier 354
29. Chapter 21. Emotional Responses to Combat 386
30. Chapter 22. “Dangled over Hell” 396
31. Part V. What Soldiers Believed
32. Chapter 23. The Values of Civil War Soldiers 425
33. Chapter 24. Embattled Courage 436
34. Chapter 25. On the Altar of My Country 456
35. Chapter 26. Holding On 472
36. Chapter 27. The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying 485
37. Index 513
38. Index 516