| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. By Michael J. Bennett. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xviii, 337 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2870-X.)
While Gen. William T. Sherman said that war is hell, Michael J. Bennett argues that naval service was purgatory for Union sailors. The author, an attorney and independent scholar, based Union Jacks upon his dissertation from Saint Louis University.	1
Bennett's book is social history at its best. It examines Yankee sailors' social origins and everyday lives, analyzes their behavior and values, and uses their experiences to explore relations between race and class, the role of religion and reform in the war, and the role of class and eth nicity in deciding whether to participate in the war. Bennett's source material includes largely the published and unpublished diaries, letters, and journals of 169 sailors who served during the war and a statistical sample of 4,570 sailors who enlisted from April 1861 to April 1865.	. . .

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