Citizen-officers [electronic resource] :the Union and Confederate volunteer junior officer corps in the American Civil War / Andrew S. Bledsoe.
By: Bledsoe, Andrew S.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookSeries: Conflicting worlds.Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2015. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807160718.Subject(s): Confederate States of America. Army -- Officers -- History | United States. Army -- Officers -- History -- 19th century | United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History | Soldiers -- United States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental historiesGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 973.7/13 Online resources: Full text available:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ideological origins of the volunteer junior officer corps -- Creation of the Civil War junior officer corps -- The challenges of company leadership -- Citizen-officer culture -- The early war combat experience -- Maturation of the volunteer junior officer corps -- Epilogue -- Appendixes: A note on the research sample; Antebellum professions and slaveholding of junior officers; Age, household wealth, marital status, and number of children of junior officers; Junior officer casualties, Union; Junior officer attrition, Union; Junior officer casualties, Confederate; Junior officer attrition, Confederate; Aggregate casualties of Union and Confederate junior officers.
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