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THE MEN STOOD LIKE IRON
HOW THE IRON BRIGADE WON ITS NAME |
| By: |
Lance J. Herdegen |
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Hardback |
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£21.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253332214 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253332219 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pages: |
271 |
| Description: |
For those for whom the names of Bull Run and Antietem still stir the imagination, Herdegen (Carroll College, Wisconsin) narrates the tale of the celebrated "Iron Brigade." Formed in conjunction with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry after the Union's July 1861 defeat at Bull Run, these 1,000 I |
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No volunteers tramped with more innocent resolve on the drill fields of 1861 than the farmers, immigrants, shopkeepers, and Opiney camp boys who volunteered for the Second, Sixth, and Seventh Wisconsin and the Nineteenth Indiana Infantry. "The Men Stood Like Iron" is the moving, often melancholy, story of how the backwoods 'Calico boys' 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'. The brigade was created when four regiments reached Washington following the Union defeat at Bull Run. It won immediate attention for being the only all-Western brigade of the Eastern armies and for th tall black hats issued to the soldiers. It was a year before the brigade saw any action. When the fighting did come it was almost more than the volunteers could handle.In four battles over three weeks 'Brawner's Farm, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam - the regiments became famous at terrible cost. By Appomattox Court House, the Iron Brigade had endured a proportionally higher number of battle deaths than any other Federal unit.It is a story of young America caught up in a civil war of unexpected magnitude and those uncertain weeks in 1862 when the fate of the Republic rested on citizen volunteers in a make-shift army. It is also the story of George McClellan, the beginnings of American military traditions and of the young men who gave 'Little Mac' their devotion and trust. |
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ill |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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