Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

by Mark H. Dunkelman

Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War (2006)

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During the Civil War, the regiment was the fundamental component of armies both North and South, its reliability and effectiveness crucial to military success. Soldiers' devotion to their regiment -- their esprit de corps -- encouraged unit cohesion and motivated the individual soldier to march into battle and endure the hardships of military life. In Brothers One and All, Mark H. Dunkelman identifies the characteristics of Civil War esprit de corps and charts its development from show more recruitment and combat to the end of the war and beyond through the experiences of a single regiment, the 154th show less

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Mark H. Dunkelman is the author of The Hardtack Regiment: An Illustrated History of the 154th Regiment, New York State Infantry Volunteers and Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island

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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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369.15Society, government, & cultureSocial problems and social servicesAssociationsHereditary, military, patriotic societies of United StatesUnion Civil War societies
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E523.5History of the United StatesUnited StatesCivil War period, 1861-1865The Civil War, 1861-1865Armies. Troops
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