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Citizen-Officers - The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War (Hardcover)
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Citizen-Officers - The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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From the time of the American Revolution, most junior officers in
the American military attained their positions through election by
the volunteer soldiers in their company, a tradition that reflected
commitment to democracy even in times of war. By the outset of the
Civil War, citizen-officers had fallen under sharp criticism from
career military leaders who decried their lack of discipline and
efficiency in battle. Andrew S. Bledsoe's Citizen-Officers explores
the role of the volunteer officer corps during the Civil War and
the unique leadership challenges they faced when military necessity
clashed with the antebellum democratic values of volunteer
soldiers. Bledsoe's innovative evaluation of the lives and
experiences of nearly 2,600 Union and Confederate company-grade
junior officers from every theater of operations across four years
of war reveals the intense pressures placed on these young leaders.
Despite their inexperience and sometimes haphazard training in
formal military maneuvers and leadership, citizen-officers
frequently faced their first battles already in command of a
company. These intense and costly encounters forced the
independent, civic-minded volunteer soldiers to recognise the need
for military hierarchy and to accept their place within it. Thus
concepts of American citizenship, republican traditions in American
life, and the brutality of combat shaped, and were in turn shaped
by, the attitudes and actions of citizen-officers. Through an
analysis of wartime writings, post-war reminiscences, company and
regimental papers, census records, and demographic data,
Citizen-Officers illuminates the centrality of the volunteer
officer to the Civil War and to evolving narratives of American
identity and military service.
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