| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers. Ed. by Aaron Sheehan-Dean. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. vi, 266 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2413-1.)
This anthology presents the research of a new generation of historians studying American Civil War soldiers. They advance our knowledge with their findings, but a central problem remains.	1
Aaron Sheehan-Dean's opening essay analyzes the past scholarship, properly underscoring the significance of work by Bell Wiley, Maris Vinovskis, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Reid Mitchell, Gerald F. Linderman, Earl J. Hess, and James McPherson. Sheehan-Dean argues that since the 1980s, scholars have treated soldiers as fully human actors who shaped the war at the same time as they were shaped by it. Today, he says, the study of Civil War soldiers is about more than soldiering; it is also about such issues as religion, masculinity, fatherhood, womanhood, and race.	. . .

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