A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War

by Mark A. Weitz

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This work addresses issues associated with Confederate desertion. What does Confederate desertion say about Confederate nationalism and the war effort? Mark Weitz examines the emotional and psychological reasons that might induce a soldier to desert.

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Mark A. Weitz is an attorney with the Weitz Morgan law firm in Austin, Texas, and a former professor of history at Gettysburg College. He is the author of several books, including Clergy Malpractice in America: Nally v. Grace Community Church of the Valley, The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861, and A Higher Duty: show more Desertion among Georgia Troops during the American Civil War. show less

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History, Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
973.7History & geographyHistory of North AmericaUnited StatesAbraham Lincoln, (1861-1865) Civil War
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E559 .W45History of the United StatesUnited StatesCivil War period, 1861-1865The Civil War, 1861-1865Armies. Troops
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