Tarnished Eagles: The Courts-martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels"In the Union army during the Civil War, a colonel was five times more likely to be court-martialed than a private. Worse, courts-martial of all ranks increased by 400 percent in the winter months. These, and dozens of other remarkable facts, have emerged in this first large-scale investigation of officer misbehavior in the War Between the States? The stories of? curmudgeons, drunkards, and outright fools, along with a statistical exploration of 22,000 other courts-martial, provide a pioneering study of the little-known world of Civil War misbehavior and clarify the often-bewildering dynamics between volunteer soldiers and their professional superiors"--Jacket. |
Contents
One Flames at Buckroe Farm | 11 |
Two A Colonel Bucked and Gagged | 17 |
Four An Oppressive and Insulting Act | 25 |
Six Got for Dam | 34 |
Seven And a Brandy for my Horse | 40 |
Nine I Will See You Damned | 47 |
Eleven So Drunk He Fell Off His Horse | 57 |
Thirteen Ill Pull Your Nose on Dress Parade | 65 |
TwentySeven Bad Blood in the 4th New York | 121 |
TwentyEight Malaria and Hemorrhoids | 127 |
ThirtyNine I Have Been Ruptured | 173 |
FortyOne The Worst Colonel I Ever Saw | 182 |
FortyThree Sense Enough to Come in Out of the Rain | 191 |
FortyFive Sick at Astor House | 197 |
FortySeven Goddamn Dutch Hounds | 204 |
FortyNine Damned Fool and Illiterate Whelp | 213 |
PART TWO CONDUCT UNBECOMING AN OFFICER | 75 |
Seventeen Damned Hungarian Humbug | 83 |
Nineteen Inexpressible Regrets | 90 |
TwentyOne Fling Wide the Banner | 98 |
TwentyTwo Drunk at Clouds Mill? | 104 |
TwentyFive I Felt of Her Bosoms | 111 |
Common terms and phrases
accused adjutant Ahna arrest Article Article of War August Ballier battle Beck Brig brigade camp Capt Captain Captain Power Cavalry Chapter charges Colonel Knobelsdorff Colonel Lawler Colonel Miles Colonel Potter Colonel Taggart Colonel Taylor Colonel Williams command commission Company conduct unbecoming Confederate court court martial court-martial damned death defense dismissed drill drunk drunkenness duty enemy Fort Sumter Gazley gentleman guard guilty headquarters horse Illinois Infantry intoxicated John judge advocate July Kerrigan later Lieutenant Colonel Louis Arsenal major March martial McClellan McCluskey Missouri months mustered O'Keefe offi Ohio order and military Pennsylvania pension privates punished Quinn rank recalled records regiment replied resignation seems sentence sergeant sick Silas Casey Smithton soldiers specifications surgeon sword Taggart Tarbell tent testified testimony told trial troops Turchin U.S. ARMY U.S. ARMY MILITARY unbecoming an officer Union Villiers Virginia Volunteers Wilson witness wounded wrote York Zandt
References to this book
"My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War Mark Hoffman Limited preview - 2007 |