Alexandre Caillot
Affiliation:
Temple University
Advisor:
Dr. Gregory Urwin
Academic Interests:
American Civil War
Eighteenth Century Military History
Nineteenth Century Cultural History
Nineteenth Century Military History
Nineteenth Century Social History
Eighteenth Century Military History
Nineteenth Century Cultural History
Nineteenth Century Military History
Nineteenth Century Social History
Dissertation:
The Forgotten Boys of the Ninth Corps: Union Conscripts, Enlistees, and Heavy Artillerymen from the Wilderness to Appomattox
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Bio Note:
Alexandre F. Caillot is a PhD candidate at Temple University. His dissertation research addresses the experiences and contributions of Union soldiers who entered the Army of the Potomac in time to serve during the Overland Campaign. He is assessing the motivations, behavior, and combat performance of men who filled the ranks left empty by veterans with expiring three-year terms. To reappraise the historiographic depiction of such later arrivals as bounty jumpers and lackluster combatants, he is combining the social history approach of soldier’s experience studies with more traditional modes of military analysis.
Updated April 2019
