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your own Free Home Page2. A good introduction to material culture studies is Thomas J. Schlereth, ed., Material Culture: A Research Guide (Lawrence, Kan.:University of Kansas Press, 1985).
3. Historians are all but dismissed in R. Lee Hadden, Reliving the Civil War: A Reenactor's Handbook (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1996), p. 4-5. see also Dennis Kubickils otherwise fine article "Building a First Person Conversation." Camp Chase Gazette, Vol. 24 (July, 1997): p. 37, 40.
4. This essay was prepared before I had the opportunity to review Earl Hess, The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997). Other relevant works available, but not reviewed here are Earl Hess, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union (New York: New York University Press, 1988) and Michael Barton, Goodmen: The Character of Civil War Soldiers (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981). Thomas Lowry's The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1994) reveals some interesting evidence, but the author fails to create an informed narrative of civil war sexual practices.
5. Marvin R. Cain, "A 'Face of Battle' Needed: An Assessment of Motives and Men in Civil War Historiography" Civil War History, 28 (1):5-27, John Keegan, The Face of Battle (New York: Viking Press, 1976), Samuel A. Stouffer, Studies in Social Psychology in World War II: The American Soldier 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949), S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future Wars (New York, 1949). See also Maris A. Vinovskis, "Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? Some Preliminary Demographic Speculation" Journal of American History 76 (1):34758.
6. For instance, his description of Confederate uniforms has been repudiated, yet his discussion of loss of morale and desertion remains among the best. Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, 1943) and The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, 1952).
7. James I. Robertson, Soldiers Blue and Gray (Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press, 1988), p. vii.
8. Robertson, Soldiers Blue and Gray, P. ix.
9. Larry J. Daniel, Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).
10. Gerald F. Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Ex-perience of Combat in the American Civil War (New York: Free Press, 1987).
ll. James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), and What They Fought For, 1861-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994).
12. Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
13. Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reaves, "Seeing the Elephant": Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989).
14. Joseph T. Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns (New York: New York University Press, 1985).
15. Reid Mitchell, Civil War Soldiers (New York: Viking, 1988)
16.
Drew Gilpin Faust, "Christian Soldiers: The Meaning of Revivalism in the
Confederate Army" Journal of Southern History 53 (Feb. 1987):63-90. I recommend
looking for this article in Drew G. Faust, Southern Stories: Slaveholders
In Peace and War (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992). See also
James Marten, "Fatherhood in the Confederacy: Southern Soldiers an Their
Children" Journal of Southern History 63 (May, 1997): 269-
292.
17. Susan Lyons Hughes, "Some Principles of First Person Interpretation" Camp Chase Gazette 24 (July, 1997):36, 38-39.
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