Title All that makes a man : love and ambition in the Civil War South / Stephen W. Berry II

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages) : illustrations Series OUP E-Books Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Men and Ambition; 1 All That Makes a Man; 2 Two Separate Yet Most Intimate Things; II: Men and Women; 3 Across a Great Divide; 4 Purity and Desire; III: Men and War; 5 A Fountain of Waters; 6 Looking Homeward; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y Summary In May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed their zeal to the cause of states' rights or slavery. As All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South makes clear, most southern men saw the war more simply as a test of their manhood, a chance to defend the honor of their sweethearts, fiances, and wives back home. Drawing upon diaries and personal letters, Stephen Berry seamlessly weaves together the stories of six very different men, detailing the tangled roles that love and ambition played in each man's life. Their writings reveal a male-dominated Southern culture that exalted women as "repositories of divine grace" and treasured romantic love as the platform from which men launched their bids for greatness. The exhilarating onset of war seemed to these, and most southern men, a grand opportunity to fulfill their ambition for glory and to prove their love for women-on the same field of battle.; As the realities of the war became apparent, however, the letters and diaries turned from idealized themes of honor and country to solemn reflections on love and home. Elegant and poetic, All That Makes a Man recovers the emotional lives of unsung Southern men and women and reveals that the fiction of Cold Mountain mirrors a poignant reality. In their search for a cause worthy of their lives, many Southern soldiers were disappointed in their hopes for a Southern nation. But they still had their women's love, and there they would rebuild Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and index Notes Print version record Subject Men -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions Men -- Confederate States of America -- Psychology Sex role -- Confederate States of America Man-woman relationships -- Confederate States of America Ambition -- History -- 19th century Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Psychology HISTORY. Ambition Man-woman relationships Men -- Psychology Men -- Social conditions Psychological aspects Sex role Social aspects Social conditions Soldiers -- Psychology Soldiers -- Social conditions SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Psychological aspects Confederate States of America -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85030860 Subject United States United States -- Confederate States of America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2002070048 ISBN 9780198033301 0198033303 9780195145670 0195145674 1280531908 9781280531903 0195183991 9780195183993 9786610531905 6610531900

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