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A Broken Regiment - The 16th Connecticut's Civil War (Hardcover)
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A Broken Regiment - The 16th Connecticut's Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil
War's most ill-fated Union military units. organised in the late
summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was
unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered the fight at
Antietam. The results were catastrophic: nearly a quarter of the
men were killed or wounded, and Connecticut's 16th panicked and
fled the field. In the years that followed, the regiment
participated in minor skirmishes before surrendering en masse in
North Carolina in 1864. Most of its members spent months in
southern prison camps, including the notorious Andersonville
stockade, where disease and starvation took the lives of over one
hundred members of the unit. The struggles of the 16th led
survivors to reflect on the true nature of their military
experience during and after the war, and questions of cowardice and
courage, patriotism and purpose, were often foremost in their
thoughts. Over time, competing stories emerged of who they were,
why they endured what they did, and how they should be remembered.
By the end of the century, their collective recollections reshaped
this troubling and traumatic past, and the ""unfortunate regiment""
emerged as ""The Brave Sixteenth,"" their individual memories and
accounts altered to fit the more heroic contours of the Union
victory. The product of over a decade of research, Lesley J.
Gordon's A Broken Regiment illuminates this unit's complex history
amid the interplay of various, and often competing, voices. The
result is a fascinating and heartrending story of one regiment's
wartime and postwar struggles.
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Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War |
Release date: |
November 2014 |
First published: |
November 2014 |
Authors: |
Lesley J Gordon
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
408 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-5730-5 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8071-5730-9 |
Barcode: |
9780807157305 |
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