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Article: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.
- Article from:
- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
- Author:
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JAMES M. MCPHERSON (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), xviii, 237 pp. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-509023-3).
Using over 25,000 letter, 250 private diaries, and information collected from twenty-two research libraries, James McPherson provides one of the most comprehensive and valuable analyses of the Civil War ever written. McPherson's painstaking detail and incredible insight provide the reader with a tremendously accurate account of why men fought in a war that took place over one hundred years ago. Much of McPherson's research is based on accounts written by Civil War soldiers looking back after the war was finished. Other accounts come from articles ...