Of age : boy soldiers and military power in the Civil War era

Of age : boy soldiers and military power in the Civil War era / Frances M. Clarke, Rebecca Jo Plant.

"Enormous numbers of boys and youths served in the American Civil War. The first book to arrive at a careful estimate, Of Age argues that underage enlistees comprised roughly ten percent of the Union army and likely a similar proportion of Confederate forces. Their importance extended beyond sh...

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Main Authors: Clarke, Frances M. (Author), Plant, Rebecca Jo, 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Children and war > United States > History > 19th century.
Children and war > Confederate States of America.
Child soldiers > United States > History > 19th century.
Child soldiers > Confederate States of America.
Child soldiers
Children
Children and war
Military participation > Juvenile
History of the Americas.
History.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, Juvenile.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Children.
United States
United States > Confederate States of America
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Parental Rights and the Duty to Bear Arms: Congress, Courts, and the Military
  • Competing Obligations: The Dual Military System, Youth Enlistment, and the War of 1812
  • A Great Inconvenience: Prewar Legal Disputes over Underage Enlistees
  • Underdeveloped Bodies: Calculating the Ideal Enlistment Age
  • Part II: The Social and Cultural Origins of Underage Enlistment
  • Instructive Violence: Impressionable Minds and the Cultivation of Courage
  • Pride of the Nation: The Iconography of Child Soldiers and Drummer Boys
  • Paths to Enlistment: Work, Politics, and School
  • Part III: Male Youth and Military Service in the Civil War Era
  • Contrary to All Law: Debating Underage Service in the United States
  • Preserving the Seed Corn: Youth Enlistment and Demographic Anxiety in the Confederacy
  • Forced into Service: Enslaved and Unfree Youths in the Confederate and Union Armies
  • Epilogue: A War Fought by Boys: Reimagining Boyhood and Underage Soldiers after the Civil War.

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