{"product_id":"the-young-lions-confederate-cadets-at-war-paperback","title":"The Young Lions: Confederate Cadets at War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Lee Conrad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA detailed look at the Confederacy's \"boy soldiers\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In making soldiers of them, \" said Confederate president Jefferson Davis regarding the mobilization of his nation's youths, \"we are grinding the seed corn.\" Yet the bloody millstones of war ground them nevertheless, and nowhere more noticeably than at the Confederacy's de facto \"West Points.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe legend of the Southern cadets is one of untrained boys wastefully flung in the path of Yankee armies as the Confederacy came to a turbulent end. The reality is one of highly trained young men who rendered valuable service from the earliest days of the war and, when confronted with the enemy on the battlefield, acquitted themselves as well as the veteran troops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Young Lions: Confederate Cadets at War\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the Southern cadets at four major military colleges during the Civil War--the Georgia Military Institute, the South Carolina Military Academy (Columbia's Arsenal campus and the Citadel in Charleston), the University of Alabama, and the Virginia Military Institute. It is also the story of the Confederate government's lack of a cohesive policy toward military colleges and its failure to adequately support the institutions that fostered its officer corps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study is the first thorough examination of the interrelationships and common challenges of the South's major military colleges, giving a detailed history of these Southern institutions. James Lee Conrad discusses the cadets' day-to-day lives as well as the academic and military systems of the schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the opening of the Virginia Military Institute in 1839 through the struggles of all the schools to remain open during the war, the death of Stonewall Jackson, and the Pyrrhic victory of the Battle of New Market to the burning of the University of Alabama, Conrad reveals the everyday heroism of the cadets both on and off the battlefield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Lee Conrad\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, and the National Law Center at George Washington University. Conrad has published articles in such journals as \u003ci\u003eCivil War Times Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Civil War.\u003c\/i\u003e A contributor to the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of the Confederacy, \u003c\/i\u003e he is the author of \u003ci\u003eRebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy.\u003c\/i\u003e A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Conrad is an attorney with the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Department. He lives in Dayton, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42113931346055,"sku":"9781570035753","price":32.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3b70ff722b11ce3e90a63e6e03c8a420.webp?v=1732493628","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-young-lions-confederate-cadets-at-war-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}