Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

2001

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Engle, Stephen D.

Abstract

After the firing on Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's subsequent call for volunteer troops, the nation began to mobilize for war in earnest. Many volunteers believed the war would be short in duration, thus they eagerly anticipated the arrival to the seat of war. The Battle of Shiloh, in April of 1862, forced both sides to realize that the war would be a prolonged affair. American soldiers had never witnessed such carnage and savagery on the battlefield. Both Northern and Southern volunteers brought with them a unique understanding of the world, shaped by the common heritage all Americans shared. "Yanks" and "Rebs" believed in many of the same principals, ideals and morals. Their similarities extended to their war experience as well. Both sides experienced the same psychological stresses induced by combat, exposure, hardship and extended absence form home. By the war's end, soldiers came to understand that war had changed them, which in turn affected how they regarded those at home.

Extent

158 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2001.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

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FADT12801

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