Author: United States
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Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Publisher:
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Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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The Letters of Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel Webster
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers
Author: John M. Sacher
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807176559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award Finalist for the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire military situation. Its forces were badly outnumbered, the Union army was threatening on all sides, and the twelve-month enlistment period for original volunteers would soon expire. In response to these circumstances, the Confederate Congress passed the first national conscription law in United States history. This initiative touched off a struggle for healthy white male bodies—both for the army and on the home front, where they oversaw enslaved laborers and helped produce food and supplies for the front lines—that lasted till the end of the war. John M. Sacher’s history of Confederate conscription serves as the first comprehensive examination of the topic in nearly one hundred years, providing fresh insights into and drawing new conclusions about the southern draft program. Often summarily dismissed as a detested policy that violated states’ rights and forced nonslaveholders to fight for planters, the conscription law elicited strong responses from southerners wanting to devise the best way to guarantee what they perceived as shared sacrifice. Most who bristled at the compulsory draft did so believing it did not align with their vision of the Confederacy. As Sacher reveals, white southerners’ desire to protect their families, support their communities, and ensure the continuation of slavery shaped their reaction to conscription. For three years, Confederates tried to achieve victory on the battlefield while simultaneously promoting their vision of individual liberty for whites and states’ rights. While they failed in that quest, Sacher demonstrates that southerners’ response to the 1862 conscription law did not determine their commitment to the Confederate cause. Instead, the implementation of the draft spurred a debate about sacrifice—both physical and ideological—as the Confederacy’s insatiable demand for soldiers only grew in the face of a grueling war.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807176559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award Finalist for the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire military situation. Its forces were badly outnumbered, the Union army was threatening on all sides, and the twelve-month enlistment period for original volunteers would soon expire. In response to these circumstances, the Confederate Congress passed the first national conscription law in United States history. This initiative touched off a struggle for healthy white male bodies—both for the army and on the home front, where they oversaw enslaved laborers and helped produce food and supplies for the front lines—that lasted till the end of the war. John M. Sacher’s history of Confederate conscription serves as the first comprehensive examination of the topic in nearly one hundred years, providing fresh insights into and drawing new conclusions about the southern draft program. Often summarily dismissed as a detested policy that violated states’ rights and forced nonslaveholders to fight for planters, the conscription law elicited strong responses from southerners wanting to devise the best way to guarantee what they perceived as shared sacrifice. Most who bristled at the compulsory draft did so believing it did not align with their vision of the Confederacy. As Sacher reveals, white southerners’ desire to protect their families, support their communities, and ensure the continuation of slavery shaped their reaction to conscription. For three years, Confederates tried to achieve victory on the battlefield while simultaneously promoting their vision of individual liberty for whites and states’ rights. While they failed in that quest, Sacher demonstrates that southerners’ response to the 1862 conscription law did not determine their commitment to the Confederate cause. Instead, the implementation of the draft spurred a debate about sacrifice—both physical and ideological—as the Confederacy’s insatiable demand for soldiers only grew in the face of a grueling war.
Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy
Author: Albert Burton Moore
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Selective service regulations prescribed by the President
Author: United States. Office of the Provost Marshal General
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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We Need Men
Author: James W. Geary
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875801575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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ISBN: 9780875801575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Universal Military Training and Service Act...not an Official Document
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Homosexuals and the U. S. Military
Author: David F. Burrelli
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437923291
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Contents: (1) Background and Analysis; (2) Discharge Statistics; (3) Issues: Legal Challenges; Actions Following the Murder of Private Barry Winchell; Recruiting, JROTC, ROTC and Campus Policies; High Schools; Colleges and Universities; Supreme Court Review of the Solomon Amendment; Homosexuals and Marriages; Foreign Military Experiences. Charts and tables.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437923291
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Contents: (1) Background and Analysis; (2) Discharge Statistics; (3) Issues: Legal Challenges; Actions Following the Murder of Private Barry Winchell; Recruiting, JROTC, ROTC and Campus Policies; High Schools; Colleges and Universities; Supreme Court Review of the Solomon Amendment; Homosexuals and Marriages; Foreign Military Experiences. Charts and tables.
Military Service and American Democracy
Author: William A. Taylor
Publisher: Modern War Studies (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9780700623204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Chronicles the changing nature of American military service from World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, including who serves and how. It argues that military service plays a vital role in American democracy, both abroad and at home.
Publisher: Modern War Studies (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9780700623204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Chronicles the changing nature of American military service from World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, including who serves and how. It argues that military service plays a vital role in American democracy, both abroad and at home.
The Law of Nations
Author: Emer de Vattel
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Publisher:
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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