The War For The Common Soldier

Author : Peter S. Carmichael
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643106

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The War for the Common Soldier by Peter S. Carmichael Pdf

How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the North and the South, Carmichael explores the totality of the Civil War experience--the marching, the fighting, the boredom, the idealism, the exhaustion, the punishments, and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances. Carmichael focuses not on what soldiers thought but rather how they thought. In doing so, he reveals how, to the shock of most men, well-established notions of duty or disobedience, morality or immorality, loyalty or disloyalty, and bravery or cowardice were blurred by war. Digging deeply into his soldiers' writing, Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them. In the end, he argues that a pragmatic philosophy of soldiering emerged, guiding members of the rank and file as they struggled to live with the contradictory elements of their violent and volatile world. Soldiering in the Civil War, as Carmichael argues, was never a state of being but a process of becoming.

Author : Ilya Berkovich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107167735

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Motivation in War by Ilya Berkovich Pdf

Explains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe.

Author : Fred Anderson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838280

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A People's Army by Fred Anderson Pdf

A People's Army documents the many distinctions between British regulars and Massachusetts provincial troops during the Seven Years' War. Originally published by UNC Press in 1984, the book was the first investigation of colonial military life to give equal attention to official records and to the diaries and other writings of the common soldier. The provincials' own accounts of their experiences in the campaign amplify statistical profiles that define the men, both as civilians and as soldiers. These writings reveal in intimate detail their misadventures, the drudgery of soldiering, the imminence of death, and the providential world view that helped reconcile them to their condition and to the war.

Author : Leander Stillwell
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066052676

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The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War by Leander Stillwell Pdf

"The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War" is a personal account of Leander Stillwell, an officer of the Company D, Sixty-first Illinois Volunteers. Stillwell wrote in detail about the everyday life of a common soldier. His account is mainly focused on the Sixty-first Illinois Infantry, including their parts in battles such as Little Rock and Murfreesboro.

Author : Bill Mauldin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:1131416677

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Mud & Guts by Bill Mauldin Pdf

Author : Kathryn Shively Meier
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469610764

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Nature's Civil War by Kathryn Shively Meier Pdf

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive

Author : Terrence J. Winschel
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807125938

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The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier by Terrence J. Winschel Pdf

William Wiley was typical of most soldiers who served in the armies of the North and South during the Civil War. A poorly educated farmer from Peoria, he enlisted in the summer of 1862 in the 77th Illinois Infantry, a unit that participated in most of the major campaigns waged in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama. Recognizing that the great conflict would be a defining experience in his life, Wiley attempted to maintain a diary during his years of service. Frequent illnesses kept him from the ranks for extended periods of time, and he filled the many gaps in his diary after the war. When viewed as a postwar memoir rather than a period diary, Wiley's narrative assumes great importance as it weaves a fascinating account of the army life of Billy Yank. Rather than focus on the noble and heroic aspects of war, Wiley reveals how basic the lives of most soldiers actually were. He describes at length his experiences with sickness, both on land and at sea, and the monotony of daily military life. He seldom mentions army leaders, evidence of how little private soldiers knew of them or the larger drama in which they played a part. Instead, he writes fondly of his small circle of regimental friends, fills his pages with refreshing anecdotes, records troop movements, details contact with civilians, and describes the appearance of the countryside through which he passed. In the epilogue, Terrence J. Winschel recounts Wiley's complex and often frustrating struggle to obtain his military pension after the war. Wiley was an ingenious misspeller, and his words are transcribed just as he wrote them more than 130 years ago. Through his simple language, we come to know and care for this common man who made a common soldier. His story transcends the barriers of time and distance, and places the reader in the midst of men who experienced both the horror and the tedium of war. Winschel's rich annotation fleshes out Wiley's narrative and provides an enlightening historical perspective. Scholars and buffs alike, especially those fascinated by operations in the lower Mississippi Valley and along the Gulf Coast, will relish Wiley's honest portrait of the ordinary serviceman's Civil War.

Author : Joshua Key
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770890725

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The Deserter's Tale by Joshua Key Pdf

Joshua Key's critically acclaimed memoir, The Deserter's Tale, is the first account from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of how the war is being waged. In spring 2003, young Oklahoman Joshua Key was sent to Ramadi as part of a combat engineer company with the U.S. military. The war he found himself participating in was not the campaign against terrorists and evildoers he had expected. Key saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no provocation. After six months in Iraq, Key was home on leave and knew he could not return. So he took his family and went underground in the United States, finally seeking asylum in Canada. In clear-eyed, compelling prose crafted with the help of award-winning Canadian novelist and journalist Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale tells the story of a man who went into the war believing unquestioningly in his government and who was transformed into a person who ethically, morally, and physically could no longer serve his country.

Author : Terry Burke
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554889600

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Cold War Soldier by Terry Burke Pdf

The danger of participating in live-fire exercises and a Christmas spent in a military prison are described in detail in this graphic picture of military life at the height of the Cold War. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an ’iron curtain’ has descended across the continent." These words, uttered by Winston Churchill in 1946, heralded the beginning of the Cold War. In this first-hand account of a NATO soldier, Terry Stoney Burke paints a graphic picture of military life at the height of the Cold War. From the trials and tribulations of basic training, through his progress of becoming an infantryman and explosive specialist, to his posting in Germany, his pull no punches narrative tells the sometimes humorous, often poignant, story of life as a common soldier. Cold War Soldieris not a book for veterans alone. Burkes explanations of military procedures, weapons, and army life strike a happy balance between reminding ex-servicemen of things they knew but may have forgotten, and creating a clear picture for the military novice.

Author : Benjamin Isitt
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774818018

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From Victoria to Vladivostok by Benjamin Isitt Pdf

"Isitt's work is new, innovative, and important. He deftly weaves the Canadian working class oposition to war and the rising leftist sentiment among workers with the inner life of the Siberian Expedition itself...No less importamt. he melds a national story with an international one. He reveals new aspects of international cooperation in the attempt to suppress the Bolshevik revolution as well as international rivalries among the countries that intervened in in Russia."---Larry Hannant, editor of The Politics of Passion: Norman Behtune's Writing and Art" ""From Victoria to Vladivostok sheds new light on a part of Canadian history that previous scholars have written off as a mere sideshow, a rather embarrassing episode that had no impact on the First World War. In contrast, Isitt sees the problems that befell the Expedition as being rooted in conflicting views of Bolshevism in Canada, and defferent perceptions of the logic behind an intervention in Russia. In this, his contribution is both significant and original."---Jonathan Vance, author of Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War against Nazi Occupation" "This highly readable and provocative book brings to life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia-the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism. It illuminates how the Siberian Expedition exacerbated tensions within Canadian society at a time when a radicalized working class, many French-Canadians, and even the soldiers themselves objected to a military adventure designed to counter the Russian Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bell Irvin Wiley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : OCLC:4177038

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The Common Soldier in the Civil War by Bell Irvin Wiley Pdf

Author : Benson Bobrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743251136

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Testament by Benson Bobrick Pdf

Bobrick tells the story of Benjamin "Webb" Baker, his great-grandfather. Webb enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and thereafter suffered through horrid conditions in camp and absolute hell in combat. Bobrick's fascinating look at the Civil War also contains a heretofore unreleased collection of Webb's letters.

Author : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674916319

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The Calculus of Violence by Aaron Sheehan-Dean Pdf

Discarding tidy abstractions about the conduct of war, Aaron Sheehan-Dean shows that the notoriously bloody US Civil War could have been much worse. Despite agonizing debates over Just War and careful differentiation among victims, Americans could not avoid living with the contradictions inherent in a conflict that was both violent and restrained.

Author : Leander Stillwell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547401421

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The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War by Leander Stillwell Pdf

"The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War" is a personal account of Leander Stillwell, an officer of the Company D, Sixty-first Illinois Volunteers. Stillwell wrote in detail about the everyday life of a common soldier. His account is mainly focused on the Sixty-first Illinois Infantry, including their parts in battles such as Little Rock and Murfreesboro.

Author : Diana Lary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521302708

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Warlord Soldiers by Diana Lary Pdf

Diana Lary examines how the common soldier in Warlord China became an instrument of oppression and terror.