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"This is the first full-length work on the state's involvement in the Mexican War. Tennessee contributed a huge number of volunteers to the war effort, and Johnson's account not only seeks to describe the military context but also to explore the motivations of Tennessee soldiers. Their notions of duty, a martial mentality and strong sense of masculinity, and the aspirations of a new nationalism all combined to create a culture of honor that was the ideological wellspring for the operation. For Tennesseans, as for many Americans, the war wasn't without controversy, especially as battle…mehr

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"This is the first full-length work on the state's involvement in the Mexican War. Tennessee contributed a huge number of volunteers to the war effort, and Johnson's account not only seeks to describe the military context but also to explore the motivations of Tennessee soldiers. Their notions of duty, a martial mentality and strong sense of masculinity, and the aspirations of a new nationalism all combined to create a culture of honor that was the ideological wellspring for the operation. For Tennesseans, as for many Americans, the war wasn't without controversy, especially as battle casualties mounted, disease spread, the incompetence of military leaders (including Tennessee's own Gideon Pillow) became apparent"--
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Timothy D. Johnson is professor of history and University Research Professor at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his PhD from the University of Alabama in 1989 and has published extensively on military history in the antebellum period. He is the author or editor of numerous articles, and six previous books including three on the Mexican-American War. His Notes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848, along with Memoirs of Lieut. General Winfield Scott, both were published by the University of Tennessee Press. In addition, he has been a research fellow at Yale University and the Virginia Historical Society.