Soldiering In The Army Of Northern Virginia

Author : Joseph T. Glatthaar
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877869

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Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia by Joseph T. Glatthaar Pdf

In this sophisticated quantitative study, Joseph T. Glatthaar provides a comprehensive narrative and statistical analysis of many key aspects of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Serving as a companion to Glatthaar's General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse, this book presents Glatthaar's supporting data and major conclusions in extensive and extraordinary detail. While gathering research materials for General Lee's Army, Glatthaar compiled quantitative data on the background and service of 600 randomly selected soldiers--150 artillerists, 150 cavalrymen, and 300 infantrymen--affording him fascinating insight into the prewar and wartime experience of Lee's troops. Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia presents the full details of this fresh, important primary research in a way that is useful to scholars and students and appeals to anyone with a serious interest in the Civil War. While confirming much of what is believed about the army, Glatthaar's evidence challenges some conventional thinking in significant ways, such as showing that nearly half of all Lee's soldiers lived in slaveholding households (a number higher than previously thought), and provides a broader and fuller portrait of the men who served under General Lee.

Author : Carlton McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012920195

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Detailed Minutiæ of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy Pdf

Author : Larry J. Daniel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469620565

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Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee by Larry J. Daniel Pdf

In Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee Larry Daniel offers a view from the trenches of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. his book is not the story of the commanders, but rather shows in intimate detail what the war in the western theater was like for the enlisted men. Daniel argues that the unity of the Army of Tennessee--unlike that of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--can be understood only by viewing the army from the bottom up rather than the top down. The western army had neither strong leadership nor battlefield victories to sustain it, yet it maintained its cohesiveness. The "glue" that kept the men in the ranks included fear of punishment, a well-timed religious revival that stressed commitment and sacrifice, and a sense of comradeship developed through the common experience of serving under losing generals. The soldiers here tell the story in their own rich words, for Daniel quotes from an impressive variety of sources, drawing upon his reading of the letters and diaries of more than 350 soldiers as well as scores of postwar memoirs. They write about rations, ordnance, medical care, punishments, the hardships of extensive campaigning, morale, and battle. While eastern and western soldiers were more alike than different, Daniel says, there were certain subtle variances. Western troops were less disciplined, a bit rougher, and less troubled by class divisions than their eastern counterparts. Daniel concludes that shared suffering and a belief in the ability to overcome adversity bonded the soldiers of the Army of Tennessee into a resilient fighting force.

Author : Joseph Glatthaar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416596974

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General Lee's Army by Joseph Glatthaar Pdf

A history of the Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee presents portraits of soldiers from all walks of life, offers insight into how the Confederacy conducted key operations, and reveals how closely the South came to winning the war.

Author : Carlton McCarthy
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89059402800

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy Pdf

Reports on a soldier's life in the Army of the Confederacy, by Carlton McCarthy, later Mayor of Richmond.

Author : Joseph T. Glatthaar
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807834923

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Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia by Joseph T. Glatthaar Pdf

In this sophisticated quantitative study, Joseph T. Glatthaar provides a comprehensive narrative and statistical analysis of many key aspects of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Serving as a companion to Glatthaar's General Lee's Army

Author : Eugene McCarthy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803288621

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Eugene McCarthy Pdf

This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather, disease, and mental strain. But the experience was perhaps even worse for Johnny Reb because of the odds against him. Never as well equipped and provisioned as the Yankee, he nevertheless performed heroically. Carlton McCarthy, a private in the Army of Northern Virginia, describes the not-always-regular rations, various improvisations in clothing and weaponry, campfire entertainments, the jaunty spirits and the endless maneuvering of the men in gray. Real but forgotten faces are glimpsed momentarily in famous battles, and the tramp of feet on the way to Appomattox is heard. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life does for the Confederate side what John Billings’s Hardtack and Coffee, also a Bison Book, does for the Northern. David Donald wrote in the New York Herald Tribune that McCarthy’s book, too, was "as fresh, as amusing, and as revealing" as the day it was first published in 1882. In a new introduction Brian S. Wills considers the book’s niche in Civil War literature.

Author : Carlton McCarthy
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1437856624

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Carlton McCarthy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1975797868

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy Pdf

The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, describes the Confederate soldier's daily struggles with hunger, illness, fear, and the perils of combat; as well as his pride of service, love of comrades, and courage in the face of overwhelming odds

Author : Philip Katcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135455927

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The Army of Northern Virginia by Philip Katcher Pdf

To see the introduction, the table of contents, a generous selection of sample pages, and more, visit the website The Army of Northern Virginia website. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was one of the greatest fighting formations in history: a combination of an outstanding commander and an excellent fighting force. This book offers an in-depth study of why this formation was so successful against Northern armies, which often had a greater wealth of resources and manpower and some very able leaders. Almost always outnumbered, Lee's forces were able to record a number of notable victories by giving free rein to subordinates and utilizing the fighting qualities of the army's units to the full. Also includes color and black and white maps.

Author : J. Tracy Power
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469620411

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Lee's Miserables by J. Tracy Power Pdf

Never did so large a proportion of the American population leave home for an extended period and produce such a detailed record of its experiences in the form of correspondence, diaries, and other papers as during the Civil War. Based on research in more than 1,200 wartime letters and diaries by more than 400 Confederate officers and enlisted men, this book offers a compelling social history of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during its final year, from May 1864 to April 1865. Organized in a chronological framework, the book uses the words of the soldiers themselves to provide a view of the army's experiences in camp, on the march, in combat, and under siege--from the battles in the Wilderness to the final retreat to Appomattox. It sheds new light on such questions as the state of morale in the army, the causes of desertion, ties between the army and the home front, the debate over arming black men in the Confederacy, and the causes of Confederate defeat. Remarkably rich and detailed, Lee's Miserables offers a fresh look at one of the most-studied Civil War armies.

Author : Carlton Mccarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1480295493

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia 1861-1865 by Carlton Mccarthy Pdf

We are familiar with the names and deeds of the "generals," from the commander-in-chief down to the almost innumerable brigadiers, and we are all more or less ignorant of the habits and characteristics of the individuals who composed the rank and file of the "grand armies" of 1861-65.As time rolls on, the historian, condensing matters, mentions "the men" by brigades, divisions, and corps. But here let us look at the individual soldier separated from the huge masses of men composing the armies, and doing his own work and duty.The fame of Lee and Jackson, world-wide, and as the years increase ever brighter, is but condensed and personified admiration of theConfederate soldier, wrung from an unwilling world by his matchless courage, endurance, and devotion. Their fame is an everlasting monument to the mighty deeds of the nameless host who followed them through so much toil and blood to glorious victories.The weak, as a rule, are borne down by the strong; but that does not prove that the strong are also the right. The weak suffer wrong, learn the bitterness of it, and finally, by resisting it, become the defenders of right and justice. When the mighty nations of the earth oppress the feeble, they nerve the arms and fire the hearts of God's instruments for the restoration of justice; and when one section of a country oppresses and insults another, the result is the pervasive malady,-war! which will work out the health of the nation, or leave it a bloody corpse.

Author : Carlton McCarthy
Publisher : Fireship Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781934757826

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Life in the Army of Northern Virginia - 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy Pdf

The Civil War comes to life through the eyes of someone who actually lived it. From the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, to the days following the surrender at Appomattox in 1865, Carlton McCarthy draws the reader into the world of the common Confederate soldier. With rich and vivid details of the military camps, marches, skirmishes and battles, his personal stories and anecdotes bring to life what it was like to be a soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia during that long brutal war. As a young man, McCarthy fought with local units before finally enlisting with the 2nd Company, Richmond Howitzer's Artillery Unit in 1864. He captures their day-to-day life, as well as their triumphs and tragedies, with both heart wrench-ing honesty and with the healthy dose of humor that enabled them all to bear the long years of hardship and deprivation. It has an accuracy and richness that could only come from a man who was actually there; and when you finish reading, you feel like you were there with him. "This absorbing and revealing book is an absolute "must have" for any Civil War buff!"

Author : Carlton McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798620696987

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia by Carlton McCarthy Pdf

This banner, the witness and inspiration of many victories, which was proudly borne on every field from Manassas to Appomattox, was conceived on the field of battle, lived on the field of battle, and on the last fatal field ceased to have place or meaning in the world. But the men who followed it, and the world which watched its proud advance or defiant stand, see in it still the unstained banner of a brave and generous people, whose deeds have outlived their country, and whose final defeat but added lustre to their grandest victories. It was not the flag of the Confederacy, but simply the banner, the battle-flag, of the Confederate soldier. As such it should not share in the condemnation which our cause received, or suffer from its downfall. The whole world can unite in a chorus of praise to the gallantry of the men who followed where this banner led.

Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469663388

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Ends of War by Caroline E. Janney Pdf

The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight. Fearing a guerrilla war, Grant extended the generous Appomattox terms to every rebel who would surrender himself. Provost marshals fanned out across Virginia and beyond, seeking nearly 18,000 of Lee's men who had yet to surrender. But the shock of Lincoln's assassination led Northern authorities to see threats of new rebellion in every rail depot and harbor where Confederates gathered for transport, even among those already paroled. While Federal troops struggled to keep order and sustain a fragile peace, their newly surrendered adversaries seethed with anger and confusion at the sight of Union troops occupying their towns and former slaves celebrating freedom. In this dramatic new history of the weeks and months after Appomattox, Caroline E. Janney reveals that Lee's surrender was less an ending than the start of an interregnum marked by military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and continued outbursts of violence. Janney takes readers from the deliberations of government and military authorities to the ground-level experiences of common soldiers. Ultimately, what unfolds is the messy birth narrative of the Lost Cause, laying the groundwork for the defiant resilience of rebellion in the years that followed.