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Book Review


Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia. By Aaron Sheehan-Dean. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xvi, 291 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3158-8.)
Aaron Sheehan-Dean has set out to discover something that has perplexed many scholars of the Civil War: Why did so many white Southerners fight for the Confederacy, especially since the majority did not own slaves? Focusing on Virginia, which, according to his own sophisticated calculations, contributed over 155,000 soldiers to the effort, he insists that most Confederates displayed a high sense of nationalism and, almost to the war's end, maintained a belief in their national cause. . . .
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