The Men Stood Like Iron: How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name

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Indiana 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
BIBLIOGRAPHY 257 INDEX
265
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