'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (Taylor - CH) horse at gettysburg ” Sandwiched between the Napoleonic

” Sandwiched between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I

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This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world

Kathryn Shively Meier

'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (Taylor - CH) horse at gettysburg ” Sandwiched between the Napoleonicby 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