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Series
Studies in American history volume 16
Publisher
E. Mellen Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of the men who fought and died in the 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War as told in the words of the men who were there. Included in the work are photographs, period illustrations, maps and an organizational chart. A complete roster is arranged by company with chronologies of officers' service"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
The educated and articulate Holt, 42 when he was commissioned in 1862, describes camp life, army politics and military medicine up to Oct. 1864. His unit's colonel, Emory Upton, one of the most famous combat commanders of the war, led the regiment in most of the major campaigns in the eastern theater of the war. Includes eight b & w photos.
Author
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In early 1864, many heavy artillery regiments in the Civil War were garrisoning the Washington defenses, including the Fifteenth New York. At the same time, newly minted Union general in chief Ulysses S. Grant sought to replenish the ranks of the Army of the Potomac, and the Fifteenth became one of the first outfits dispatched to Major General George Meade at Brandy Station. Composed of predominantly German immigrants, members of the Fifteenth not...
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
"In Brothers One and All, Mark H. Dunkelman identifies the characteristics of Civil War esprit de corps and charts its development from recruitment and combat to the end of the war and beyond through the experiences of a single regiment, the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. Dunkelman offers a unique psychological portrait of a front line company that fought with distinction at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Valley, Rocky Face Ridge, and other...
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
"A happy-go-lucky soldier falls at Gettysburg. An officer survives a hair-raising escape after capture at Gettysburg, only to die in the Atlanta campaign. A young volunteer retreats into insanity. Though they did most of the fighting and dying in the American Civil War, "ordinary" soldiers largely went unheralded in their day and have long since been forgotten. Mark H. Dunkelman retrieves twelve of these common soldiers from obscurity and presents...