Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia
Subtitle: a statistical portrait of the troops who served under Robert E. Lee
By: Joseph T. Glatthaar
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780807834923
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Social conditions; Soldiers; Confederate States of America; Statistics; Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia
Description: "In this ... 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 ... While gathering research materials for [another project] Glatthaar compiled quantative data on the background and service of 600 randomly selected soldiers - 150 artillerists, 150 cavalrymen, and 300 infantrymen - affording him ... insight into the pre-war and wartime experience of Lee's troops ... While confirming much of what is believed about the army, Glatthaar's evidence [presented in this volume] challenges some conventional thinking in significant ways ... and provides a broader and fuller portrait of the men who served under General Lee"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: The army; title: The infantry; title: The cavalry; title: The artillery; title: Northern- and foreign-born soldiers; title: Upper and lower south; title: Officers and enlisted men; title: Year of enlistment; title: Age; title: Marriage and fatherhood; title: Economic class; title: Slaveholding.