The Motives of Soldiers in the Civil War from For Cause and Comrades by McPherson

It is thought that this requires a lot of time, energy, and devoted effort. McPherson was able to screen letters and diaries and he wanted to reveal in this book, because they were able to "build a composite portrait of a civil war soldier". On the other hand, the diary is more valuable as he can "understand their blue and gray men's thoughts, emotions, beliefs." The most interesting chapter I found was Chapter 5: Religion is the reason for a brave soldier.

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.

The reason and comrades represent one of the most extensive civil war soldier studies based on 1,076 soldiers, 647 federations and 429 federal government samples. McPherson discussed the sample and its method in a complicated and clear way. He suggested that his sample is a very representative of the civil war soldier's entire demographics, comparing the proportion of men from different states, occupations, and serving different military departments. Overdisplay on this sample is for staff (well-educated wealthy people), slave owner (in the case of federation), men who were killed by wounds or illness during surgery or otherwise killed It is. Since it is not a soldier on the surface, it is a soldier of a combat unit and it is not a soldier who is mainly assigned to a non-combat mission (viii-ix), he said that this last thought imbalance is actually Reminds me that it is beneficial to work.