For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

James M. McPherson

Drawing on more than 25,000 uncensored letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides, McPherson shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict.

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is on the Army list.