Publication

1997 - Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

64,500 words, Guess

Page Count

258 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing547467

Classifications

  • DDC343.73/0143
  • LCCKF7641 .L69 1998
  • LCCKF7641.L69 1998

Description

"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.

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Topics

LAWHistoryMilitaryOfficersArmed ForcesUnited StatesUnited States. Army

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