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Most people today consider desertion the ultimate act of rebellion against one’s nation. During the Civil War, however, many Americans had a more complex understanding of this act of defiance, refusing to condemn every deserter as a seditious traitor. The thousands of Northerners and Southerners who abandoned their military obligations did so for a host of reasons, many of which had little to do with nationalism or the war’s overriding political goals.
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