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Author Berry, Stephen William.

Title All that makes a man : love and ambition in the Civil War South / Stephen W. Berry II.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index.
Summary In May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed their zeal to the cause of states' rights or slavery. As All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South makes clear, most southern men saw the war more simply as a test of their manhood, a chance to defend the honor of their sweethearts, fiances, and wives back home. Drawing upon diaries and personal letters, Stephen Berry seamlessly weaves together the stories of six very different men, detailing the tangled roles that love and ambition played in each man's life. Their writings reveal a male-dominated Southern culture that exalted women as "repositories of divine grace" and treasured romantic love as the platform from which men launched their bids for greatness. The exhilarating onset of war seemed to these, and most southern men, a grand opportunity to fulfill their ambition for glory and to prove their love for women-on the same field of battle.; As the realities of the war became apparent, however, the letters and diaries turned from idealized themes of honor and country to solemn reflections on love and home. Elegant and poetic, All That Makes a Man recovers the emotional lives of unsung Southern men and women and reveals that the fiction of Cold Mountain mirrors a poignant reality. In their search for a cause worthy of their lives, many Southern soldiers were disappointed in their hopes for a Southern nation. But they still had their women's love, and there they would rebuild.
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Subject American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Psychological aspects.
Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
Men -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
Men.
Social conditions.
Men -- Confederate States of America -- Psychology.
Psychology.
Sex role -- Confederate States of America.
Sex role.
Man-woman relationships -- Confederate States of America.
Man-woman relationships.
Ambition -- History -- 19th century.
Ambition.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
Soldiers.
Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Psychology.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Men.
Gender roles.
Other Form: Print version: Berry, Stephen William. All that makes a man. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195145674 (DLC) 2002070048 (OCoLC)49727888
ISBN 9780198033301 (electronic book)
0198033303 (electronic book)
9780195145670 (alkaline paper)
0195145674 (alkaline paper)
1280531908
9781280531903