For Honor's Sake Why Confederate Soldiers Chose to Fight Through the Siege of Petersburg

They were starving. Outnumbered. Holding a line that most of them knew, in the quiet hours before dawn, could not be held.And still they stayed.For Honor's Sake goes beyond the familiar story of Confederate defeat to ask a more unsettling question, not why so many men abandoned the Petersburg lines, but why so many did not. Drawing on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the soldiers themselves, i...