{"id":328,"date":"2012-08-01T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-gilder\/?p=328"},"modified":"2012-08-01T19:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:30:46","slug":"for-cause-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/2012\/08\/01\/for-cause-and\/","title":{"rendered":"For Cause and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading <strong><em>For Cause and Comrades<\/em><\/strong> , the issue of social class and education was raised\u00a0 to which McPherson states the correlation\u00a0&#8221; should not be discounted&#8221;. Implied is that those with a better education and higher social status tended to be better fighters and not skulkers. And yet, after the initial flag waving excitement of the initial call -up for war passed, the\u00a0armies of both sides\u00a0were left to fill their ranks by conscription and\/or the use substitutes\u00a0(McPherson does note that the middle class Irish and Scotch\/Irish brigades of the famed Irish Brigade and Louisiana Tigers\u00a0should give one pause).\u00a0In the struggle to understand the\u00a0necessity and the accompanying brutality of war\u00a0it is fascinating to consider\u00a0that correlation. Moreover, it seems to call into question F. Douglass&#8217; comment read in this morning&#8217;s discussion about the benefit of enlisting former slaves\u00a0in the cause- many of whom were not educated, nor\u00a0possessing\u00a0\u00a0tangible social status on either side.<br \/>\nWas Douglass wrong?<br \/>\nIs McPherson wrong in suggesting that the correlation existed?<br \/>\n<em><strong>Rich man&#8217;s war &#8211; poor man&#8217;s fight<\/strong> &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/em>To this traditional are we asked to add&#8230; smart man&#8217;s victory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading For Cause and Comrades , the issue of social class and education was raised\u00a0 to which McPherson states the correlation\u00a0&#8221; should not be discounted&#8221;. Implied is that those with a better education and higher social status tended to be better fighters and not skulkers. And yet, after the initial flag waving excitement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11236,67,6109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-primary-sources","category-secondary-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}