Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of history at Angelo State University. He is co-editor (with Lorien Foote) of So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North, also from Fordham University Press.

"This important book is the first comprehensive study of a group of young men who provided vital leadership to the Union war effort and played key roles in the post-war United States. It makes a significant scholarly contribution to a variety of discussions regarding nationalism, social class, manhood, and the nature of leadership in the Union Army." -- -Lorien Foote Texas A&M University

• Introduction 1. "A Stage with Curtains Drawn": New England College Students and Their World 2. "The Great People of the Future": American Civilization and National Character 3. To Act Like Men: Building Character in the New Brahmins 4. "To Put Those Theories into Practice": Secession and The Crisis of Character 5. Marching into "Rebeldom": The Failure of Southern Character 6. The Character to Command 7. Character Triumphant: Reconstruction, Reform, and Reconciliation Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of history at Angelo State University. He is co-editor (with Lorien Foote) of So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North, also from Fordham University Press.

"This important book is the first comprehensive study of a group of young men who provided vital leadership to the Union war effort and played key roles in the post-war United States. It makes a significant scholarly contribution to a variety of discussions regarding nationalism, social class, manhood, and the nature of leadership in the Union Army." -- -Lorien Foote Texas A&M University

• Introduction 1. "A Stage with Curtains Drawn": New England College Students and Their World 2. "The Great People of the Future": American Civilization and National Character 3. To Act Like Men: Building Character in the New Brahmins 4. "To Put Those Theories into Practice": Secession and The Crisis of Character 5. Marching into "Rebeldom": The Failure of Southern Character 6. The Character to Command 7. Character Triumphant: Reconstruction, Reform, and Reconciliation Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of history at Angelo State University. He is co-editor (with Lorien Foote) of So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North, also from Fordham University Press.

"This important book is the first comprehensive study of a group of young men who provided vital leadership to the Union war effort and played key roles in the post-war United States. It makes a significant scholarly contribution to a variety of discussions regarding nationalism, social class, manhood, and the nature of leadership in the Union Army." -- -Lorien Foote Texas A&M University

• Introduction 1. "A Stage with Curtains Drawn": New England College Students and Their World 2. "The Great People of the Future": American Civilization and National Character 3. To Act Like Men: Building Character in the New Brahmins 4. "To Put Those Theories into Practice": Secession and The Crisis of Character 5. Marching into "Rebeldom": The Failure of Southern Character 6. The Character to Command 7. Character Triumphant: Reconstruction, Reform, and Reconciliation Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index