The Vacant Chair : The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
by Mitchell, Reid
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0195078934
- ISBN 13
- 9780195078930
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1993. First Printing . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 201 Pages Indexed. In many ways, the Northern soldier in the Civil War fought as if he had never left home. On campsites and battlefields, the Union volunteer adapted to military life with attitudes shaped by networks of family relationships, in units of men from the same hometown. Understanding these links between the homes the troops left behind and the war they had to fight offers critical insight into how they thought, fought, and perservered through four bloody years of combat. Mitchell draws on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of common soldiers to show how mid-nineteenth-century ideas and images of the home and family shaped the Union soldier's approach to everything from military discipline to battlefield bravery. For hundreds of thousands of boys, as they called themselves, the Union army was an extension of their home and child hood experiences.
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- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7800
- Title
- The Vacant Chair : The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
- Author
- Mitchell, Reid
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0195078934
- ISBN 13
- 9780195078930
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 5 1/2" x 8 1/2
- Keywords
- UNITED STATES ARMY HISTORY CIVIL WAR 1861 1865 MILITARY LIFE PERIOD 1850 1877
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