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05 Jan 2020 11:48 a.m. PST by Editor in Chief Bill
- Changed title from "Robert E. Lee and the Death of John Agustine Washington III" to "Robert E. Lee and the Death of John Augustine Washington III"
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Tango01 | 04 Jan 2020 10:26 p.m. PST |
"In his now classic work For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, historian James M. McPherson utilized the framework of initial, sustaining, and combat motivations to probe the letters and diaries of hundreds of Civil War soldiers, Union and Confederate, to determine what they fought for between 1861 and 1865. McPherson borrowed an important scholarly framework from John Lynn, the great French Revolution military historian, to help readers better understand the common soldier's three phases of motivation. Today, we have an incredibly rich scholarship on the motivations and thinking of the enlisted or common soldier, from Bell Irvin Wiley's The Life of Johnny Reb and The Life of Billy Yank to Peter Carmichael's deeply penetrating work The War for the Common Soldier. Yet, surprisingly, one of the areas where the scholarship remains limited in this discussion of soldiers' motives (beyond the illiterate African American soldiers of the Union Army, irregular soldiers of both sides, and Native American warriors in the west and far west) is in closely examining the sustaining and combat motivations of general officers after they enlisted. Searching their private letters offers a different window into what fueled the regular, conventional battlefield's raging violence. Further, a comparative study of general officers' sustaining motivations would be fascinating for either Northern or Southern armies…" mAIN PAGE link Amicalement Armand
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