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Baring the Iron Hand - Discipline in the Union Army (Hardcover)
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During antebellum wars the Regular Army preserved the peace,
suppressed the Indians, and bore the brunt of the fighting. The
Civil War, however, brought an influx of volunteers who overwhelmed
the number of army Regulars, forcing a clash between traditional
military discipline and the expectations of citizens. Baring the
Iron Hand provides an extraordinarily in-depth examination of this
internal conflict and the issue of discipline in the Union Army.
Ramold tells the story of the volunteers, who, unaccustomed to such
military necessities as obeying officers, accepting punishment, and
suppressing individuality, rebelled at the traditional discipline
expected by the standing army. Unwilling to fully surrender their
perceived rights as American citizens, soldiers both openly and
covertly defied the rules. They challenged the right of their
officers to lead them and established their own policies on
military offenses, proper conduct, and battlefield behavior.
Citizen soldiers also denied the army the right to punish them for
offenses like desertion, insubordination, and mutiny that had no
counterpart in civilian life. Ramold demonstrates that the clash
between Regulars and volunteers caused a reinterpretation of the
traditional expectations of discipline. The officers of the Regular
Army had to contend with independent-minded soldiers who resisted
the spit-and-polish discipline that made the army so efficient, but
also alienated the volunteers' sense of individuality and manhood.
Unable to prosecute the vast number of soldiers who committed
offenses, professional officers reached a form of populist
accommodation with their volunteer soldiers. Unable to eradicate or
prevent certain offenses, the army tried simply to manage them or
to just ignore them. Instead of applying traditionally harsh
punishments for specific crimes as they had done in the antebellum
period, the army instead mollified its men by extending amnesty,
modifying sentences, and granting liberal leniency to many soldiers
who otherwise deserved the harshest of penalties. Ramold's
fascinating look into the lives of these misbehaving soldiers will
interest both Civil War historians and enthusiasts.
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