Gentlemen and the Roughs Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army

Name: Gentlemen and the Roughs Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army
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ISBN: 9781479897841

ISBN-10: 1479897841

ISBN-13: 9781479897841

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lorien Foote

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Finalist for the 2011 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize "A seminal work. . . . One of the best examples of new, sophisticated scholarship on the social history of Civil War soldiers."—The Journal of Southern History “Will undoubtedly, and properly, be read as the latest word on the role of manhood in the internal dynamics of the Union army."—Journal of the Civil War Era During the Civil War, the Union army appeared cohesive enough to withstand four years of grueling war against the Confederates and to claim victory in 1865. But fractiousness bubbled below the surface of the North’s presumably united front. Internal fissures were rife within the Union army: class divisions, regional antagonisms,…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 6/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Lorien Foote is Professor of History at Texas A&M and the author of Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform .



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Contested Terms of Manhood



"A Good Moral Regiment": Conduct Unbecoming a Gentleman



"The Model of the Gentleman": Gentility and Self-Control



"A Regular Old-Fashioned Free Fight": Physical Prowess and Honor



"If You Will Go with Me outside the Lines": Dueling and the Degenerate Affair of Honor



"The Thick-Fingered Clowns": Social Status and Discipline



"The Shoulder-Strap Gentry": Officers, Privates, and Equal Manhood


Conclusion: The War for Manhood


Appendix: Note on Method and Sources


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author