Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers (James J. Broomall - CA) prootrait we see a man agonizing

we see a man agonizing over the limits of his army’s power

An appendix discusses depictions of the Custers' dogs in art

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But Grant’s war of attrition began to take its toll in a more insidious way

Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers (James J. Broomall - CA) prootrait we see a man agonizingby Dr James J Broomall How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows, the crisis of the war forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self reliant masculinity, Confederate soldiers lived and fought within military units where