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Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee (review)

Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served... Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee. By Joseph T. Glatthaar. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. 224. Cloth, $50.00.) The rise of the new economic history in the 1960s brought a substantial reliance on mathematics into a discipline that still resembled literature much more than it did a social science. Spurred by the cliometricians, political and social historians soon began enthusiastically if controversially following their lead in basing conclusions on carefully assembled databases of statistical information. Historical volumes suddenly came equipped with a plethora of tables, bar graphs, methodological appendixes, equations, and chi-square tests. Civil War historians, however, generally straggled behind their colleagues' van like heavily laden new recruits, while those who focused most squarely on military topics usually stayed in their camps, citing Mark Twain on damned lies and statistics. More recently, of course, quantitative research has become an important part of many home front studies, while even books about soldiers and their motivations now boast their share of percentages and tables. The most recent culmination of the new direction in Civil War military history is Joseph Glatthaar's General Lee's Army: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee (review)

Noe, Kenneth W.
The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 2 (1) – Feb 23, 2012
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Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee. By Joseph T. Glatthaar. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. 224. Cloth, $50.00.) The rise of the new economic history in the 1960s brought a substantial reliance on mathematics into a discipline that still resembled literature much more than it did a social science. Spurred by the cliometricians, political and social historians soon began enthusiastically if controversially following their lead in basing conclusions on carefully assembled databases of statistical information. Historical volumes suddenly came equipped with a plethora of tables, bar graphs, methodological appendixes, equations, and chi-square tests. Civil War historians, however, generally straggled behind their colleagues' van like heavily laden new recruits, while those who focused most squarely on military topics usually stayed in their camps, citing Mark Twain on damned lies and statistics. More recently, of course, quantitative research has become an important part of many home front studies, while even books about soldiers and their motivations now boast their share of percentages and tables. The most recent culmination of the new direction in Civil War military history is Joseph Glatthaar's General Lee's Army:

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