The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home by Mitchell, Reid - 1993

Oxford University Press, 1993. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Jacket rubbed. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. In many ways, the Northern soldier in the Civil War fought as if he had never left home. On campsites and battlefields, the Union volunteer adapted to military life with attitudes shaped by networks of family relationships, in units of men from the same hometown. Understanding these links between the homes the troops left behind and the war they had to fight, writes Reid Mitchell, offers critical insight into how they thought, fought, and persevered through four bloody years of combat.