The vacant chair
Subtitle: the Northern soldier leaves home
By: Reid Mitchell.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
Description: Based on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Mitchell shows how mid-nineteenth-century ideas and images of the home and family shaped the union soldier's approach to every thing from military discipline to battlefield bravery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.