The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army

by Lorien Foote

Book Overview

Finalist for the 2011 Gilder
Lehrman Lincoln Prize

"A seminal work. . . . One of
the best examples of new, sophisticated scholarship on the social history of
Civil War soldiers."

--The Journal of Southern History

"Will undoubtedly, and properly, be
read as the latest word on the role of manhood in the internal dynamics of the
Union army."

--Journal of the Civil War Era

During the Civil...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479897841
• ISBN13: 9781479897841
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"