The Men Stood Like Iron: How the Iron Brigade Won Its NameIndiana University Press, 1997 - 271 strani The Men Stood Like Iron is the dramatic story of how the backwoods frontier boys of Indiana and Wisconsin became soldiers of an ""Iron Brigade, "" a unit so celebrated that General George McClellan called it ""equal to the best troops in any army in the world."" Created following the Union defeat at Bull Run, the brigade won immediate attention for being the only all-Western brigade of the Eastern armies and for the tall black hats issued to the soldiers. It was a year before the brigade saw any action, but when the fighting began, it was relentless. In four battles over three weeks - Brawner's Farm, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam - the Iron Brigade earned its name at terrible cost. By Appomattox Court House, the brigade had suffered a proportionally greater number of battle deaths than any other Federal unit. |
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July 4 1863 | 3 |
Marching Day and Night | 11 |
Greenhorn Patriots | 18 |
The Volunteer Army of 1861 | 26 |
Alas It Was a Dream | 31 |
Little Mac | 41 |
The Fair Miss Peters | 49 |
Massa Linkums Men | 57 |
The Army Ran Like Sheep | 125 |
We Have Got a General Now | 133 |
The Iron Brigade of the West | 143 |
Sharpsburg Maryland | 154 |
The Cornfield | 163 |
Give Em Hell | 174 |
Too Horrible to Behold | 185 |
The Men Have Stood Like Iron | 196 |
The Boss Soldier | 64 |
Hindquarters in the Saddle | 74 |
Come On God Damn You | 87 |
Would Not Like to Hear It Again | 94 |
Devil Take the Hindmost | 105 |
The Little Colonel | 114 |
May God Bless Us | 206 |
The Government Has Gone Mad | 212 |
NOTES | 219 |
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The Men Stood Like Iron: How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name Lance J. Herdegen Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1997 |
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