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Desertion (Confederate) during the Civil War - Encyclopedia Virginia

Desertion occurs when soldiers deliberately and permanently leave military service before their term of service has expired. During the American Civil War (1861 ...

Desertion during the Civil War - New Georgia Encyclopedia

Federal policies encouraged Confederate desertion and attempted to shorten the war not only by pardoning and restoring citizenship rights to deserters who took ...

Deserters in the Civil War - Teachinghistory.org

I thought all deserters would have been executed. Answer. This question gets at a central truth about service in the Civil War armies: desertion was common on ...

Civil War Deserters - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |

Civil War Deserters: Cowards or Heroes? Desertion, while enlisted in the military, has always been considered the ultimate disgrace. Deserters are typically ...

Desertion (Civil War) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

By the war's end, it is estimated that the Confederacy lost 104,428 men to desertion. In contrast, the total number of Union deserters far ...

Desertion, Cowardice and Punishment - Essential Civil War ...

While deserters numbered in the hundreds of thousands, deserting in the ... Kevin Conley Ruffner, Civil War Desertion from a Black Belt Regiment: An ...

Desertion - Wikipedia

Before the Civil War, deserters from the Army were flogged; after 1861, tattoos or branding were also used. The maximum U.S. penalty for desertion in ...

From Gray to Blue: An Odyssey of Deserting the Confederate Army ...

Though radical at first, the U.S. Army's recruitment of Confederate prisoners of war and deserters was not unreasonable by the winter of 1863- ...

Reasons for Desertion - Civil War Era NC

Individual reasons that caused desertion of North Carolina soldiers are difficult to determine. A scholar could have the same number of reasons as deserters, ...

TIL over 100000 confederate soldiers deserted their posts during the ...

Depending on the metric, that as many as 10%-14% of their forces deserting.

Why were there so many deserters from the Union army during the ...

... desertion. Read more about: Desertion (Confederate) during the Civil War ... What happened to deserters during the American civil war? Desertions ...

Desertion during the Civil War - University of Nebraska Press

Desertion during the Civil War, originally published in 1928, remains the ... Captured deserters generally were not shot or hanged because manpower was so ...

Military Executions during the Civil War - Encyclopedia Virginia

During the first two years of the war, however, military authorities generally treated desertion with leniency, and dealt with it by “such other punishment” as ...

Stragglers and deserters | Civil War Potpourri

One example of desertion in the Civil War was Confederate soldier Arthur Muntz, who was killed by his fellow soldiers after deserting at First ...

Freedom, Race, and Desertion in America's Civil War - AAIHS

Officers in the Union army saw desertion as a major problem and took action to track down deserters and prevent desertion. The search for ...

Guardhouse - Desertion - Fort Scott National Historic Site (U.S. ...

The customary punishment for desertion was hard labor and dishonorable discharge. Some deserters were also branded with a "D." During times of ...

Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration

... war communities stayed relative to deserters from pro‐war communities. ... v) study of desertion in the Civil War points out that “the knowledge of any ...

More Damning Than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army

(2006) "More Damning Than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army," Civil War ... toward deserters. Although about 230 deserters were executed, most ...

Desertion · The Morale of Joseph J. Hoyle and ... - Civil War Era NC

One of the biggest problems for regiments during the Civil War was desertion. In many cases a man deserting was directly related to the low morale at the time ...

Civil War Desertion - NCpedia

Civil War desertion by North Carolina troops remains a controversial topic. ... deserters to believe that if they reached their home state ...