Brothers One and All: Esprit De Corps in a Civil War Regiment

369 Pages·2004·2.23 MB·English

by  Mark H. Dunkelman

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Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment
brothers one And All
mark h. dunkelman
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Conflicting Worlds
New Dimensions of the American Civil War
T. MICHAEL PARRISH, EDITOR
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brothers one and all
Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment
MARK H. DUNKELMAN
louisiana state university press
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Copyright(cid:1)2004byMarkH.Dunkelman
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Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
ISBN0-8071-2978-X(hardcover:alk.paper)
1.UnitedStatesArmy.NewYorkInfantryRegiment,154th(1862–1865)2.UnitedStatesArmy—Military
life—History—19thcentury.3.Fellowship—History—19thcentury.4.UnitedStates—History—CivilWar,
1861–1865—Socialaspects.5.Soldiers—NewYork(State)—Socialconditions—19thcentury.6.Soldiers—United
States—Socialconditions—19thcentury.7.NewYork(State)—History—CivilWar,1861–1865—Regimental
histories.8.UnitedStates—History—CivilWar,1861–1865—Regimentalhistories.I.Title.II.Series.
E523.5154th.D855 2004
369(cid:1).15(cid:1)09747—dc22
2004000585
ThepaperinthisbookmeetstheguidelinesforpermanenceanddurabilityoftheCommitteeonProduction
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Inlovingmemoryofmyparents,HaroldandIrene
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ontents
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Acknowledgments .. ......................................... xi
Introduction:ThisLittleBand ................................... 1
part one: Home Ties
1. DemographicsandIdentity .............................. 15
2. LinesofCommunication ................................ 30
3. FriendsandFoes ..................................... 54
part two: WarTies
4. Comrades,Cowards,andSurvivors ......................... 75
5. EnduringHardships ................................... 98
6. OntheBattlefield..................................... 120
7. TheWounded,Captured,andDead ... ...................... 142
8. InCampandBeyond .................................. 170
9. ShoulderStrapsandCourts-Martial ......................... 205
10. MoraleandRegimentalPride ............................. 226
part three: VeteranTies
11. E.D.NorthrupandtheBetrayalofEspritdeCorps .............. 251
Notes .................................................... 279
Bibliography ... ............................................ 315
Index .................................................... 327
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llustrations
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Map
Areaofoperationsofthe154thNewYork 14
Photographs
followingpage247
PrivateBarneyMcAvoy
PrivatesFrancisM.BowenandMosesBowenJr.
FrancisBowen,MosesBowen,andCyrusH.Bowen
SergeantAsaBrainardandPrivateCalvinBrainard
PrivateJacobWinney
SergeantMajorAlexanderBirdandhiswife,MelissaAda(Hyde)Bird
PrivateLeviD.Baileyandhiswife,CeliaA.(Stevens)Bailey
FirstSergeantAmbroseF.Arnold
Currier&IveslithographcommemoratingCorporalSeymourSikes
JohnManley,the“Soldier’sFriend”
AssistantsurgeonGeorgeH.Bosley
CaptainLewisD.Warner
CaptainByronA.Johnston,FirstLieutenantAlexanderBird,andCorporal
ThomasR.Aldrich
Broadsidefor1888encampmentof154thNewYorkveterans
Veteransofthe154thNewYorkattheirGettysburgmonument
E.D.Northrup,historianofthe154thNewYork
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