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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Confederate Army"”.
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
… the racial attitudes and policies of the Confederate army. Although Southern men did not fight for slavery alone, the defense of the peculiar institution, and the racial control they believed it assured, united rebels in their support of the Confederacy and the war effort. Amid the …
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"It Is Useless to Conceal the Truth Any Longer": Desertion of Virginia Soldiers From the Confederate Army
… analysis of the patterns of desertion within the army is one of the most unique characteristics of this study. Several other scholars have attempted to track desertion across the Confederacy, but limited sources restricted their studies. By compiling data from compiled service records, this thesis …
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'The land of my birth and the home of my heart': Enlistment Motivations for Confederate Soldiers in Montgomery County, Virginia, 1861-1862
… to entire states, armies, or to all Union or Confederate soldiers in general. Some historians even attempt to show that regardless of Union or Confederate, soldiers' motivations were similar due to a shared American identity. This thesis explores a community in the mountain valleys of …
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God of Our Fathers: Catholic Chaplains in the Confederate Armies
… covers the role played by Catholic chaplains in Confederate army regiments from Louisiana. It explores their life, ministry, military role, and impact on the regiments. To cover this in depth the Catholic chaplains selected we those who left published records.
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Loyalty on the Line: Civil War Maryland in American Memory
… regions and cities in the state harbored strong Confederate sympathies. In particular, Baltimore was a stronghold for Confederate sympathizers and became a central setting for contention between those supporting the Union and those in favor of secession and the secessionist cause. More than …
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The first battles for Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864
During June 15-18, 1864, the Federal Army of the Potomac launched a series of attacks against the vital Confederate rail center of Petersburg, Virginia. Union leaders believed that capturing Petersburg would force the abandonment of the Rebel capital at Richmond. The assaults failed, however, and …
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A Battle of Wills: Morale, Hope and the Army of Northern Virginia during the Last Year of the Civil War
"A Battle of Wills" examines the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the final year of the American Civil War. By investigating the reactions to events such as battles and political happenings that occurred among the soldiers of the Confederacy's primary army we can see how the end of the …
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Beyond the ritual of exchange: The culture of alienation shared between soldiers along the Rappahannock during the winter of 1862--63
Between December 1862 and April 1863, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac remained stalemated across from one another on the Rappahannock River. Following the victory at the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Confederate Army held the city while the Union forces …
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Volunteering to lead: Combat affairs that shaped the command philosophy of Major Rufus R. Dawes, U.S.A. and Captain James Cooper Nisbet, C.S.A. (1861-1862)
… soldier that filled the ranks of both Union and Confederate armies. In exchange for their position amongst the common volunteer, the junior officers shared the same dangers in combat as their subordinates. In this study, junior officers Rufus Dawes and James Cooper Nisbet serve as the focus of a …
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Brigadier General James Dearing, C.S.A
… In 1861, Dearing left West Peint to join the Confederate Army. He joined the Washington Artillery as second lieutenant and, in July, 1861, distinguished himself at the First Manassas. By April, 1862, he was a captain. With that rank, he fought in the Peninsula campaigns at the Second Manassas. …
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Patrick County, Virginia and the Civil War, 1860-1880
… Patrick Countians flocked to serve in the Confederate Army. Although situated in Virginia, Patrick managed to escape physical decimation from war. In fact, no battles occurred in the county and Federal troops only invaded the county once in four years. Nevertheless, the Civil War came home …
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The Boy Battery: A Socio-Military Study of the 2nd Missouri Light Artillery
… history by providing a social analysis of Confederate 2nd Missouri Light Artillery during the American Civil War. It examines the 2nd Missouri's genesis in the Missouri State Guard and its service in the Confederate Army, following the unit under three successive captains, Clark, King, and …
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The Education of a Staff Officer: The Life and Career of Samuel Cooper, 1798-1852
Samuel Cooper was an officer in the United States Army from 1815-1861, and a Confederate States Army officer from 1861-1865. Cooper's long career as a staff officer in the U.S. Army culminated in his appointment to the post of adjutant general in 1852. With the onset of the sectional crisis in …
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Stapleton Crutchfield: Stonewall Jaackson's chief of artillery
No Virginian was more dedicated to the Confederate cause than Stapleton Crutchfield. Born into a prominent and wealthy family, Crutchfield enjoyed and embraced the southern aristocratic lifestyle. He was a Virginian first and a United States citizen second. When Crutchfield was sixteen, he enrolled …
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The 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
… Craig and Bedford Counties enlisted in Confederate service and became members of the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Their story is an integral part of the history of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. This is a social-military study which documents the war-time careers of the men in the …
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Braxton Bragg on leadership: a historical case study on leader-member exchange in the Army of Tennessee
… commander, GEN Braxton Bragg, commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, and his senior lieutenants, through the lens of a contemporary, relationship-centered model of leadership dynamics, Leader-Member Exchange (LMX). The results of this research fill a void in the examination of …
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Voting with Their Feet: Union Desertion in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
… Martin's Desertion of Alabama Troops from the Confederate Army: A Study in Sectionalism in 1932, and Mark A. Weitz's A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War in 2000. These three texts scrutinize the "traditional explanations" for desertion, including battle fatigue, …
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“a Lonely Wandering Refugee”: Displaced Whites In The Trans-Mississippi West During The American Civil War, 1861-1868
… battles and the effectiveness of the Union and Confederate armies on the war’s outcome. During the past few decades, social historians have tried to dig beneath that narrative to situate the war in the eyes of American citizens and how that war affected their lives. With this, there has been a …