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Table of Contents:

• 1. "A Good Moral Regiment": Conduct Unbecoming a Gentleman
• 2. "The Model of the Gentleman": Gentility and Self-Control
• 3. "A Regular Old-Fashioned Free Fight": Physical Prowess and Honor
• 4. "If You Will Go with Me outside the Lines": Dueling and the Degenerate Affair of Honor
• 5. "The Thick-Fingered Clowns": Social Status and Discipline
• 6. "The Shoulder-Strap Gentry": Officers, Privates, and Equal Manhood.

Author/Creator:

Foote, Lorien, 1969-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The gentlemen and the roughs: manhood, honor, and violence in the Union Army [by Foote, L.]

Subjects:

United States Army — History — Civil War, 1861-1865

United States Army — Military life — History — 19th century

Soldiers — United States — Social conditions — 19th century

Social classes — United States — History — 19th century

Social conflict — United States — History — 19th century

Violence — United States — History — 19th century

Honor — United States — History — 19th century

Masculinity — United States — History — 19th century

United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Social aspects

United States Army

American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)

1800-1899

Soldiers — Social conditions

Soldiers

Social classes

Social conflict

Violence

Honor

Masculinity

Social aspects

Armed Forces — Military life

United States

United States — Confederate States of America

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

x, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

E491 .F66 2010

ISBNs:

9780814727904 (cloth, alk. paper)
0814727905 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780814727959 (ebook)
0814727956 (ebook)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009053606

OCLC Numbers:

491917681