Friendly Enemies
Soldier Fraternization throughout the American Civil War
During the American Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers commonly fraternized, despite strict prohibitions from the high command. When soldiers found themselves surrounded by privation, disease, and death, many risked their standing in the army, and ultimately their lives, for a warm cup of coffee or pinch of tobacco during a sleepless shift on picket duty, to receive a newspaper from a Yank or Johnny, or to stop the relentless picket fire while in the trenches. In Friendly Enemies Lauren K. Thompson analyzes the relations and fraternization of American soldiers on opposing sides of the battlefield and argues that these interactions repr…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4962-2162-9
- EAN: 9781496221629
- Produktnummer: 35595127
- Verlag: Nebraska
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'996 KB
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