Introduction: What they did not fight for
pt. 1. "When our rights were threatened"
Duty, honor, country : "Patriotism is a fine word for historians"
Slavery : "The principle cause of the war"
pt. 2. "Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil"
Women : "Do the best you can"
Hatred : "Vandal hordes"
Pay : "Fighting for money instead of their country"
pt. 3. "We are a band of brothers and native to the soil"
Religion : "Let us meet in heaven"
Comrades : "All my neighbor boys"
Weariness : "We have suffered enough"
Battle : "The elephant"
Appendix.
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Reluctant rebels : the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 by Kenneth W. Noe. ISBN 9780807833773. Published by University of North Carolina Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
