Desertion of Alabama Troops from the Confederate Army
Author : Bessie Martin
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Page : 281 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Alabama
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Author : Bessie Martin
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Page : 281 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Alabama
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Author : Bessie MARTIN
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Page : 283 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Bessie Martin
Publisher : Library of Alabama Classics
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
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At the start of the Civil War in 1861, many men in Alabama enthusiastically enlisted. After these husbands, fathers, and brothers-all family breadwinners-marched off to duty, the number of indigent families in the state began to rise dramatically. Inflation, lack of transportation, a drastically decreased labor force, war taxes, and enemy invasion all created an increasingly desperate economic situation, especially in less affluent northern and southeastern sections of the state. In some places, women and children were reported to be near starvation, bread riots erupted, and begging was common. As soldiers became more and more distressed about these developments at home, waves of desertions occurred. Even social relief efforts made by state and local governments in the form of the Military Aid Society, the Samaritan Society, and the Citizen s Relief Association did little to deter the cyclical exodus of fighting men from Confederate units. Southern leaders considered desertion the chief cause of serious military defeats, including those at Atlanta and Gettysburg. Desertions certainly weakened the manpower of the Confederacy and lowered the morale of its people.
Author : Jason Mann Frawley
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Page : 149 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Desertion, Military
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Author : Bessie MARTIN
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Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Library
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Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Library catalogs
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Page : 710 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Union catalogs
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Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Page : 864 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 1980
Category : United States
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Author : Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Page : 914 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Theology
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Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Page : 2352 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1978
Category : United States
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