Love and Ambition in the Civil War South
by
Stephen W. Berry, II
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2002
In May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed their zeal to the cause of states' rights or slavery. As All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the...