Reluctant rebels
Subtitle: the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861
By: Kenneth W. Noe.
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780807833773
Subjects: Confederate States of America. -- Army -- Military life; Confederate States of America. -- Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc; Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History; Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions; Confederate States of America -- Social conditions; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What they did not fight for; title: pt. 1. "When our rights were threatened"; title: Duty, honor, country : "Patriotism is a fine word for historians"; title: Slavery : "The principle cause of the war"; title: pt. 2. "Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil"; title: Women : "Do the best you can"; title: Hatred : "Vandal hordes"; title: Pay : "Fighting for money instead of their country"; title: pt. 3. "We are a band of brothers and native to the soil"; title: Religion : "Let us meet in heaven"; title: Comrades : "All my neighbor boys"; title: Weariness : "We have suffered enough"; title: Battle : "The elephant"; title: Appendix.