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.