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and the frustrations of being away from families who often faced their own dire circumstances

Although 78 percent of the soldiers' votes were cast for Lincoln

soon to be heightened by Lincoln's assassination

Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers (James J. Broomall - CA) bugle But the President-Elect discovered anby Dr James J Broomall How did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows, the crisis of the war forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self reliant masculinity, Confederate soldiers lived and fought within military units where