A Soldier’s War

Until the First World War, "the description of the American war was mainly limited to the statement of the general ... the vast majority of the confusion and confusion of war was imaginary" (Smith 11). Prior to Stephen Clan's civil war novel "The Brave Red Badge", American writers rarely regarded war as a viable literary theme. Klein did not enter the war zone, but his publication was thought to be the first to exploit the possibilities of the battlefield as a literary background. Ernest Hemingway further developed war fiction types and added "news style" described by Smith to more contemporary skepticism of modern warfare.

This book is trying to find the answer to the basic question (page 5). "What is the most basic human instinct - what can overcome self defense?" More basically (5 pages): "Why do civil war soldiers do this?" This book is about the fundamentals of fighting in battle Focuses on the question: Why do they fight when death is a very real possibility? What are the reasons they challenged this possibility and kept struggling? McPherson uses his own words based on his sentences (letters, memoirs, journals, diaries). The author reports to read 25,000 private letters and 249 diaries

Over the years, James McPherson has been plagued by the motives of dead soldiers fighting during the Civil War. To find the answer, he turned to thousands of letters and diaries written by soldiers during the war. His research, reasons and comrades explain why soldiers fight for it, and how they deal with fear of battle and pressure. McPherson analyzed the three types of motives: early (why soldiers join), maintain (why they stay in the military), and battle (why they involve battle). In the Civil War, we found that the motivation for all three categories is very consistent. Elements such as training and leadership are important, but McPherson claims that the will to fight depends on personality. In the Civil War, the "real warriors" of the Federal Army and the Confederate Army were those who firmly believed in their careers and hugged their brothers.

McPherson 's argument is that Civil War soldiers are kept motivated by ideology and continue to maintain societal beliefs in courage, responsibility, honor and believe in Bell I · Wiley (President of the Civil War Academy) who believes in them I refuse. It is not politically interested and does not move. On the contrary, Gerard Lindeman, whose work in the syndrome of Vietnam, who felt adventurous and companion's pressure, complained of the shock's shock, disintegrated them and crushed their ideals. He found some evidence to prove these positions, but most civil war soldiers are indeed a fundamental motive for the ideal of patriotism or ideology, and that of allies and Confederates of Confederates I am convinced that 66% and 68% will be affirmed. "Patriotic assertion" motives of battle "(100 - 01). The South Army also caused the American Revolutionary War, regarded as a struggle against independence and conquest.