War Fought and Felt: The Emotional Motivations of Confederate Soldiers (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) By Joshua R. Shiver. Published by LSU Press. 2025. Brand New Condition.
Joshua R. Shiver’s War Fought and Felt advances our grasp of the links between masculinity, emotion, and relationships during the American Civil War. It is the first broadly researched, multidisciplinary, and statistically supported approach to understanding the pivotal role of emotions in the everyday lives of Confederate soldiers. Using a source base of more than 1,790 letters and diaries from two hundred Confederate soldiers from North Carolina and Alabama, it builds upon traditional sociocultural and ideological arguments for why Confederate soldiers fought.
