Author: D. H. Fletcher Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 112
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry" by D. H. Fletcher, Samuel H. Fletcher. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Rhonda M. Kohl Publisher: SIU Press ISBN: 0809332043 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
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Cavalry units from Midwestern states remain largely absent from Civil War literature, and what little has been written largely overlooks the individual men who served. The Fifth Illinois Cavalry has thus remained obscure despite participating in some of the most important campaigns in Arkansas and Mississippi. In this pioneering examination of that understudied regiment, Rhonda M. Kohl offers the only modern, comprehensive analysis of a southern Illinois regiment during the Civil War and combines well-documented military history with a cultural analysis of the men who served in the Fifth Illinois. The regiment’s history unfolds around major events in the Western Theater from 1861 to September 1865, including campaigns at Helena, Vicksburg, Jackson, and Meridian, as well as numerous little-known skirmishes. Although they were led almost exclusively by Northern-born Republicans, the majority of the soldiers in the Fifth Illinois remained Democrats. As Kohl demonstrates, politics, economics, education, social values, and racism separated the line officers from the common soldiers, and the internal friction caused by these cultural disparities led to poor leadership, low morale, disciplinary problems, and rampant alcoholism. The narrative pulls the Fifth Illinois out of historical oblivion, elucidating the highs and lows of the soldiers’ service as well as their changing attitudes toward war goals, religion, liberty, commanding generals, Copperheads, and alcoholism. By reconstructing the cultural context of Fifth Illinois soldiers, Prairie Boys Go to War reveals how social and economic traditions can shape the wartime experience.
Author: D. H. Fletcher
Author: Rhonda M. Kohl
Author: Abner Hard
Author: Samuel H. Fletcher
Author: Stephen Crane
Author: Lyman G. Bennett
Author: John S. Wilcox
Author: Mary Lee Stubbs![Rosters [etc.] of Illinois regiments numbered from the lst to the l7th cavalry; 29th United States colored infantry, and the lst and 2nd regiments and independent batteries of artillry. Also, rosters of enlisted men of regiments numbered from the 7th to the 20th PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/t2IQ50aXHpsC?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Illinois. Military and Naval Department
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