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

James M. McPherson

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Chapter 1, This War is a Crusade

Chapter 2, We Were in Earnest

Chapter 3, Anxious for the Fray

Chapter 4, If I Flinched, I Was Ruined

Chapter 5, Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers

Chapter 6, A Band of Brothers

Chapter 7, On the Altar of My Country

Chapter 8, The Cause of Liberty

Chapter 9, Slavery Must be Cleaned Out

Chapter 10, We Know That We are Supported at Home

Chapter 11, Vengeance Will be Our Motto

Chapter 12, The Same Holy Cause

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

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

During the discussion of "short-timers" psychology in the Union army, what was the name of the rule that prevented this phenomenon in the Confederate army? (from Chapter 6, A Band of Brothers)

In the discussion of combat stress reaction, readers learn that this phenomenon was most common during which year of the Civil War? (from Chapter 12, The Same Holy Cause)

Which most notorious massacre of black prisoners happened on April 12, 1864? (from Chapter 11, Vengeance Will be Our Motto)

During the Bristoe campaign, from which state was the sergeant who disobeyed a surgeon's order to go to the hospital because he was afraid of the suspicion attached? (from Chapter 6, A Band of Brothers)

While talking about religious fatalism, McPherson says that more soldiers were practical Arminians than strict __________________. (from Chapter 5, Religion is What Makes Brave Soldiers)