'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (Taylor - CH) town a teenager who falls in

a teenager who falls in love with an American soldier

offers a look at the dysfunctional relationships that permeated upper echelon leadership and helped lead to the defeat of the Army of Tennessee and the loss of the important logistical rail city

he provides candid and often unsparing commentary on his fellow officers

applying innovative technologies and underdog strategies that would achieve more than anyone thought possible

turned their backs on Martin Luther King's pacifism and

'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (Taylor - CH) town a teenager who falls inby Paul Taylor James McPhersons classic book For Cause & Comrades explained why men fought in the Civil Warand spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have explored why men did not fight. Thats the question Paul Taylor answers in this groundbreaking Civil War history that examines the reasons why at least 60 percent of service eligible men in the North chose not to serve and why, to some extent, their