Union Jacks :Yankee sailors in the Civil War
- 作者: Bennett, Michael J.
- 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2004.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) :illustrations.
- 叢書名: Civil War America
- 標題: Military operations, Naval. , Sailors United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century. , History. , United States. Navy History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. , Seemann. , United States History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. , Sailors , Sailors United States -- History -- 19th century. , HISTORY. , Sea life. , HistorySocial aspects. , Sezessionskrieg , History , Marine , Social conditions. , Seeschlacht , 1800-1899 , United States. Navy. , Sea lifeHistory , HistoryNaval operations. , Social aspects. , United States. Navy Sea life -- History -- 19th century. , Electronic books. , United States History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects. , Armed Forces , United States , USA. , Sailors Social conditions. , Sailors. , Armed Forces Sea life. , United States. , Social conditions
- ISBN: 0807863246 , 9780807863244
- ISBN: 080782870X , 9780807828700
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index. Dissenters from the American mood: why men joined the United States Navy during the Civil War -- Any man can become a soldier: the making of union sailors -- Ships of fools: the sailor's experience on the union blockade -- The devil's own purgatory: the experience of gunboatmen in the Mississippi squadron -- All hands drunk and rioting: the maritime culture of union sailors -- Saving Jack: religion, union sailors, and the United States Christian commission -- Frictions: shipboard relations between white and contraband union sailors -- My youthfull emagination of hell: the face of battle for union sailors.
- 摘要: Michael Bennett offers an assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. He explores the origins of the men who were sailors at this time, their reasons for enlistment and how their backgrounds shaped their service.
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- 系統號: 005314582
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Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.
來源: Google Book
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