Drawing on the letters and diaries of nearly one thousand Union and Confederate soldiers, James M. McPherson gives voice to the men who risked their lives in the Civil War. Living only eighty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Civil War soldiers felt the legacy and responsibility entrusted to them by the Founding Fathers to preserve fragile democracy as something worth dying for. In their uncensored letters and in their diaries, Civil War soldiers commented on a wide variety of issues connected with their war experience. Their insights show how deeply felt and strongly held their convictions were and reveal far more careful thought on the ideological issues of the war than was previously thought.
James M. McPherson
What They Fought For 1861-1865
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Drawing on the letters and diaries of nearly one thousand Union and Confederate soldiers, James M. McPherson gives voice to the men who risked their lives in the Civil War. Living only eighty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Civil War soldiers felt the legacy and responsibility entrusted to them by the Founding Fathers to preserve fragile democracy as something worth dying for. In their uncensored letters and in their diaries, Civil War soldiers commented on a wide variety of issues connected with their war experience. Their insights show how deeply felt and strongly held their convictions were and reveal far more careful thought on the ideological issues of the war than was previously thought.
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