Ideological origins of the volunteer junior officer corps -- Creation of the Civil War junior officer corps -- The challenges of company leadership -- Citizen-officer culture -- The early war combat experience -- Maturation of the volunteer junior officer corps -- Epilogue -- Appendixes: A note on the research sample; Antebellum professions and slaveholding of junior officers; Age, household wealth, marital status, and number of children of junior officers; Junior officer casualties, Union; Junior officer attrition, Union; Junior officer casualties, Confederate; Junior officer attrition, Confederate; Aggregate casualties of Union and Confederate junior officers.
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