The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
Based on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Mitchell shows how mid-nineteenth-century ideas and images of the home and family shaped the union soldier's approach to every thing from military discipline to battlefield bravery.
War & MilitaryWar & Military · low confidenceCatalog subject evidence is still thin for this record; the current assignment is provisional.War & Military63 signalsAmerican History42 signalsSociety & Culture32 signalsAward Category: Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize: Civil War Era -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureWar & Military StrategyFamily, Childhood & AdoptionIntellectual History & IdeasRegional & Local History
Award History
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| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize: Civil War Era | 1994 | Finalist | Official source |