Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War

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Simon and Schuster, 30 cze 2008 - 368
Linderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now.

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Introduction
1
PART ONE COURAGES WAR 1 Courage at the Core
7
Courage from Battlefield to Hospital
17
Courage as the Cement of Armies
34
The Uses of Courage
61
Courage and Civilian Society
80
PART TWO A PERILOUS EDUCATION
111
Unexpected Adversaries
113
The New Severity
169
A Warfare of Terror
180
Unraveling Ties
216
Disillusionment
240
Epilogue
266
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
298
NOTES
315
BIBLIOGRAPHY
335

Sword and Shovel
134
Unraveling Convictions
156
INDEX
351
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Gerald Linderman is a professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the acclaimed Mirror of War.

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