What were the motivations for soldiers on both sides to enlist to fight in the war?

This is the prompt for the paper:

The paper, also 3-5 pages in length, is on James McPhersons, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. The questions you need to ask as you progress through the paper are:

(Citations from the book are required!)

Prompt Questions that need to be answered in the essay:

What were the motivations for soldiers on both sides to enlist to fight in the war?

How did the men find Army life, and how did they react to actual fighting?

How did the men deal with the possibility of death?

What ultimately did men on both sides fight for?

Important Notes/Details:

The essay needs to be written in Chicago Manual of Style of notation.
Intext citations are needed. Preferably, if you could do at least 4-5 citations but no more than 6 or whatever makes the essay sound nice. The book links needed to make the intext citations are in the files provided. I also attached them in this “paper details” text box. The Book that’s highlighted in in the files provided is the most important book to grab citations from. It’s stated that Joseph Ellis’s book is the only text needed for the citations, However, if the book is not enough to grab citations from, you can grab other sources from the other texts provided. There is also a rubric attached in files for the essay styling.

Thanks.

Main Text:

George Brown Tindall, & David E Shi, America A Narrative History [Tenth Edition] [Vol. 1] [W. W. Norton & Company, 2012] [Paperback] Eleventh (11th) Brief Edition, ISBN: 978-0393668964

Secondary Texts:

Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Knopf-Doubleday Publishing, 2002. ISBN: 978- 0375705243

James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 978- 0195124996

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