'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (Taylor - CH) horse at gettysburg Few images reflect the character

Few images reflect the character of hardy New Englanders like that of the eighteenth-century colonial ranger

Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised

” Sandwiched between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I

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'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (Taylor - CH) horse at gettysburg Few images reflect the characterby Paul Taylor James McPhersons classic book For Cause & Comrades explained why men fought in the Civil Warand spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have explored why men did not fight. Thats the question Paul Taylor answers in this groundbreaking Civil War history that examines the reasons why at least 60 percent of service eligible men in the North chose not to serve and why, to some extent, their