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Introduction 1. James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (New York:Oxford University Press,1997),16;and James M.McPherson,What They Fought For, 1861–1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994), 11–18. McPherson believes that after the initial motivation to ¤ght in a war, soldiers sustained their motivation by their belief in the cause and through primary group cohesion: “[F]or the Civil War soldier this group may have been as large as his company but was likely to be smaller: his messmates, the men from his town or township with whom he enlisted” (For Cause and Comrades 85). Bell Irvin Wiley saw the dominant urge to enlist as being the desire for adventure (The Life of Johnny Reb, The Common Soldier of the Confederacy [Indianapolis:Bobbs-Merrill Company,1943], 17–18). 2. Randall C.Jimerson,The Private Civil War:Popular Thought during the Sectional Con®ict (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994), 16–17. Both sides claimed to be ¤ghting for their own views of liberty. For a recent discussion of liberty and freedom in America, see David Hackett Fischer, Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America’s Founding Ideas (New York:Oxford University Press,2005), 308–28. 3. Joseph Allan Frank, With Ballot and Bayonet: The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998), 8. 4. Gerald F. Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (New York: Free Press, 1987), 7–16. 5. Reid Mitchell,Civil War Soldiers:Their Expectations and Experiences(NewYork: Viking Penguin, 1988), 3–4. 6. Mitchell 58. 7. According to Mitchell, as the soldiers “became isolated from the old patterns of life, men had to make themselves new identities from the very military life that threatened to degrade them” (56–57). 8. Robert Anderson McClellan, “Early History of Limestone County” 15. Robert authored a series of articles in the Athens Post in 1881 and was attempting Notes to develop a more comprehensive history of Limestone County. The sudden death of his daughter put an end to the project. 9. Robert Henry Walker,A History of Limestone County (Athens,AL:Limestone County Commission, 1973), 48, 68. 10. Robert Dunnavant Jr., Historic Limestone County Alabama (Athens, AL: Pea Ridge Press, 1995), 39–46. 11. J.Mills Thornton III,Politics and Power in a Slave Society:Alabama,1800–1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978), 365. 12. Margaret M. Storey, Loyalty and Loss: Alabama’s Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004), 1–17. Margaret Storey looks at the complex demographic features of the northern Alabama unionists and the multiple political and social factors that shaped Union loyalty on the Southern home front. 13. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama,War Department Collection of Confederate Records , Record Group 109, M311, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. (hereafter referred to as CSR, with the name of the speci¤ed individual following); Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Civil War Service Cards File in the Alabama Civil War Service Database, Montgomery, AL (hereafter referred to as ADAH, with the name of the speci¤ed individual following). I did not add multiple woundings for each soldier to the casualty totals. 14. Steven M. Stowe, Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 3–4. 15. Buchanan-McClellan Papers, 1816–1917, Accession #1850, Manuscript Department , Southern Historical Collection, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 16. McClellan, Family Letters, Carter family, Tullahoma, TN (hereafter referred to as Carter family letters). 17. CSR, John B. McClellan. 18. Carter family letters. 19. CSR, Robert A. McClellan. 20. Buchanan-McClellan Papers. 21. Buchanan-McClellan Papers. 22. Thomas McAdory Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Company Publishers, 1978), 4:1093. 23. Faye Acton Axford,To Lochaber Na Mair:Southerners View the Civil War (Athens , AL: Athens Publishing Company, 1986), 210 n. Chapter 1 1. Thornton 420–21. 2. Clarence Phillips Denman, The Secession Movement in Alabama (Montgomery: Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1933), 164. 334 / Notes for pages 3–16 3. Thornton 428–29. 4. Thomas Joyce McClellan to Martha Beattie McClellan, 14 January 1861 (McClellan, Family Papers, Limestone County Archives, Athens, AL; copy of the original document, which is at...
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