Tis Not Our War Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North 1st Edition by Paul Taylor 9780811775380 0811775380

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ISBN 10: 0811775380

ISBN 13: 9780811775380

Author: Paul Taylor

James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have explored why men did not fight. That’s the question Paul Taylor answers in this groundbreaking Civil War history that examines the reasons why at least 60 percent of service-eligible men in the North chose not to serve and why, to some extent, their communities allowed them to do so. Did these other men not feel the same patriotic impulses as their fellow citizens who rushed to the enlistment office? Did they not believe in the sanctity of the Union? Was freeing men held in chains under chattel slavery not a righteous moral crusade? And why did some soldiers come to regret their enlistment and try to leave the military? ’Tis Not Our War answers these questions by focusing on the thoughts, opinions, and beliefs of average civilians and soldiers. Taylor digs deep into primary sources—newspapers, diaries, letters, archival manuscripts, military reports, and published memoirs—to paint a vivid and richly complex portrait of men who questioned military service in the Civil War and to show that the North was never as unified in support of the war as portrayed in much of America’s collective memory. This book adds to our understanding of the Civil War and the men who fought—and did not fight—in it.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: “Somebody Must Go; and Who Can Go Better Than Young Men Like Myself”: Patriotism Was Hardly the Sole Reason Why They Initially Volunteered—An Overview

Chapter 2: “It Is Only Greenhorns Who Enlist”: A Philosophical Reluctance to Volunteer

Chapter 3: “Tis Not Our War”: A Plethora of Specific Reasons to Stay Home

Chapter 4: “Patriotism Is Well-Nigh ‘Played Out’ in the Army”: Changing Perspectives, the Militia Act of 1862, and the Rise of the Mercenary

Chapter 5: “Every Man That Is between 18 and 45 Years of Age Is Sick or Going to Be . . . Anything for an Excuse”: The North Reacts to a Changing War

Chapter 6: “We Broke with Many Friends on Account of Politics”: Fall 1862’s Emancipation Proclamation, Racial Animosity, and Home Front Ostracism

Chapter 7: “The People Here Are All of One Mind— That Is to Resist the Draft”: The 1863 Conscription Act, the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau, and the Invalid Corps

Chapter 8: “The Fear of Being Drafted Makes One Almost Sick”: Resenting and Evading the Draft

Chapter 9: “Come Home if You Have to Desert, You Will Be Protected”: Deserting the Army to Get Home, Good Jobs and Inflation as Reasons to Stay Home

Chapter 10: “The Apathy of Our People Is Our Stumbling Block”: Avoiding the War Intensifies for Civilian and Soldier Alike

Chapter 11: “There Is No Patriotism Left. Tis All for Money Now”: One More Draft to Avoid

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