Mitchell, Reid.

The vacant chair : the Northern soldier leaves home / Reid Mitchell. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. - xiv, 201 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Based on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Mitchell shows how mid-nineteenth-century ideas and images of the home and family shaped the union soldier's approach to every thing from military discipline to battlefield bravery.

0195078934 (alk. paper) 9780195078930 (alk. paper)

92036921

GB94-26121


United States. Army --History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States. Army --Military life--History--19th century.


Soldaten.
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Soldat
Sozialpsychologie
Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865)


United States--History--Social aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865
USA--Nordstaaten

Civil wars Social conditions United States

E 468.9 / .M68 1993