More damning than slaughter
Subtitle: desertion in the Confederate Army
By: Mark A. Weitz.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780803247970
Subjects: Confederate States of America. Army -- History; Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History; Military deserters -- Confederate States of America -- History; Desertion, Military -- Confederate States of America -- History; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Desertions
Description: xix, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: The American practice; title: My country, my home; title: Into the breach, 1861; title: Desertion in the heartland, 1862; title: Desertion in the East and the folly of leniency, 1862; title: Desertion, ideology, and the insidious business of oaths, 1863; title: "The number of desertions is so great," 1863; title: "War of the most wretched and savage character"; title: The order of the day, 1864; title: "We conquered ourselves," 1865 and conclusion.