Add to ORKGOver 2 million men, including African Americans, served in the U.S. army during the Civil War. But questions remain about what may have (or not) motivated men to join the U.S. Army. Recent scholarship moves the historical conversation beyond discussions of military tactics and prominent figures to an important, but often marginalized topic—U.S. Army recruitment\u27s financial logistics. Brian P. Luskey argues in Men is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America, that capitalism, class dynamics, and labor speculation is critical to understanding both the successes and shortcomings of U.S. Army recruitment. Luskey places U.S. Army labor brokers as the central figures of his study. He emphasizes their usage of the free labor...
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Union officers in the Civil War’s Western Theater were uninterested in waging a purely moral crusade...
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From Battlefield to Pickett Line: American Labor Redefined In Free Labor: The Civil War and the Maki...
In Civil War scholarship, black men’s enlistment and active participation in the war effort has been...
How did one transform a group of raw recruits, of men who had no military knowledge, into soldiers? ...
State of the Field: Where are Union Soldiers Now, and Where in the World Should they Go Next? “Who w...
The US government had limited power during the Civil War, including an inability to tax income. Simi...
The Economics of the Civil War Mobilizing Soldiers and the Homefront It seems hard to believe ther...
During the United States Civil War, African American men recruited throughout the\ud United States, ...
This dissertation is a labor history of the United States army in the nineteenth and early twentieth...
A Gendered Look at the Union Army The varied nature of the Northern population during the Civil ...
Before the final shot of the Civil War rang out, the phrase a rich man\u27s war, poor man\u27s figh...
The American Civil War ended with Union victory on April 9, 1865, in the front parlor of the McLean ...
Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan can turn to entities from the Federal Government to Hire Heroes USA...
Union officers in the Civil War’s Western Theater were uninterested in waging a purely moral crusade...
How the Creation and Implementation of the US Colored Troops Worked This book is the third in John H...
Review of: Lincoln’s Mercenaries: Economic Motivation among Union Soldiers during the Civil War, by ...
From Battlefield to Pickett Line: American Labor Redefined In Free Labor: The Civil War and the Maki...
In Civil War scholarship, black men’s enlistment and active participation in the war effort has been...
How did one transform a group of raw recruits, of men who had no military knowledge, into soldiers? ...
State of the Field: Where are Union Soldiers Now, and Where in the World Should they Go Next? “Who w...
The US government had limited power during the Civil War, including an inability to tax income. Simi...
The Economics of the Civil War Mobilizing Soldiers and the Homefront It seems hard to believe ther...
During the United States Civil War, African American men recruited throughout the\ud United States, ...
This dissertation is a labor history of the United States army in the nineteenth and early twentieth...
A Gendered Look at the Union Army The varied nature of the Northern population during the Civil ...
Before the final shot of the Civil War rang out, the phrase a rich man\u27s war, poor man\u27s figh...
The American Civil War ended with Union victory on April 9, 1865, in the front parlor of the McLean ...
Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan can turn to entities from the Federal Government to Hire Heroes USA...
Union officers in the Civil War’s Western Theater were uninterested in waging a purely moral crusade...
How the Creation and Implementation of the US Colored Troops Worked This book is the third in John H...