The Civil War in the American Ruling Class

Unconventional Warfare in the American Civil War

Veterinary medicine and the American Civil War.

Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War

What motivated men to risk death in the most horrific war in U.S. history when pay was low and irregular and military punishment strategies were weak? In such a situation creating group loyalty by promoting social capital is of paramount importance and in the Civil War was the cement of both armies. We find that individual and company socio-economic and demographic characteristics, ideology, an...

Migration in Response to Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Border of the American Civil War

This paper documents a migration response to the American Civil War. We compare men who served in the Confederate Army with their men who served in the Union army in the border state of Kentucky, which contributed significant numbers of soldiers to both armies. To create the dataset, we collected the universe of existing Union and Confederate enlistees from Kentucky and matched men to their pre...

Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War