Raising the White Flag
David Silkenat
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The University of North Carolina Press
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most famously at Appomattox Courthouse. But in the intervening four years, both Union and Confederate forces surrendered en masse on scores of other occasions. Indeed, roughly one out of every four soldiers surrendered at some point during the conflict. In no other American war did surrender happen so frequently.
David Silkenat here provides the first comprehensive study of Civil War surrender, focusing on the conflicting social, political, and cultural meanings of the action. Looking at the conflict from the perspective of men who surrendered, Silkenat creates new avenues to understand prisoners of war, fighting by Confederate guerillas, the role of southern Unionists, and the experiences of African American soldiers. The experience of surrender also sheds valuable light on the culture of honor, the experience of combat, and the laws of war.
Kundenbewertungen
Alamo, Robert E. Lee, Appomattox Courthouse, Gettysburg, Fort Donelson, Pierre G.T. Beauregard, Ulysses S. Grant, Winfield Scott, Lieber Code, Confederate soldiers, Stonewall Jackson, prisoner exchange, Union soldiers, Joseph Johnston, Bennett Place, laws of war, Civil War prisons, Robert Anderson, Edmund Kirby Smith, Jefferson Davis, prisoners of war, Vicksburg, Simon B. Buckner, surrender, American Civil War, Civil War soldiers, Abraham Lincoln, Fort Sumter, Harpers Ferry, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Fort Pillow, William Tecumseh Sherman, Reconstruction, military history, Dix-Hill cartel