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Indlæser... Lincoln's 90-Day Volunteers 1861: From Fort Sumter to First Bull Run (Men-at-Arms)af Ron Field
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. After all these decades, the "Men-at-Arms" series probably remains one of Osprey Publishing's most basic products, and with 500-plus separate titles having been published, there is no claiming that all of them are essential. What lifts this particular title above the mean is the period, the crash emergency period of the early days of the American Civil War, and secondly, Field has collected a lot of first-person accounts of how the Union militiamen and new recruits responded to their new garb (often very underwhelmed!). Besides that this booklet also does a good job of documenting the period when Union troops were as likely to serve in the field wearing grey as blue, and when "uniform" was more of an aspiration than a reality (that was also true of the Confederate forces). ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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On April 15, the day after the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to enlist for three months' service to defend the Union. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this is the engaging story of the first wave of soldiers who volunteered to defend and preserve the Union in 1861, based on detailed research in US sources, including many eye-witness accounts of their very varied uniforms and equipment. When war broke out with the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12-14, 1861, the regular US Army numbered just 16,000 troops, most of them scattered widely, and far from what would clearly become the main theater of operations between the two capitals - Washington, DC, and Richmond, Virginia. It was at this time Lincoln called for a three-month enlistment from volunteers. The 90-day period was, of course, entirely unrealistic, and would be followed by further andmuch more extensive mobilizations; but for the first few months, when Washington itself was in real danger, the defense of the capital depended on a hastily gathered army of militiamen and volunteers from those states that declared their immediate loyalty to the Union. These units were mostly entirely inexperienced, barely trained, weakly officered, and provided with the most motley uniforms, equipage, and weapons. Nevertheless, they bought the Union time during the first vital months. This period ended with the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) on July 21, at which only some 2,000 of General McDowell's 28,500 Union troops were regulars. This ground-breaking study draws upon a very wide range of period sources to describe and illustrate the actual appearance of this diverse and colorful force, including photographs, eyewitness accounts in period newspapers and letters, the reports of government agents, and the records of the many manufacturers who received orders to clothe and equip their state troops. The units were composed of separate companies drawn from both wealthy and poorer communities, so varied widely in style, fromcopies of fashionable French uniforms to plain working-men's clothing. There were no rules at this date specifying that the North should wear blue and the South gray, and the extremely mixed appearance of both armies caused much dangerous confusion. Fully illustrated with specially commissioned artwork and rare period illustrations, this engaging account brings to life the first wave of volunteers who stepped forward to defend and preserve the Union in 1861. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.731History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil War Operations Campaign of 1861LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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