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Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools
Thomas P. Lowry
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Courts-Martial of Civil War Union Colonels
出版U of Nebraska Press, 2003-09-01
主題History / United States / General
ISBN97808032802430803280246
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XfniOPL0P4IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋During the Civil War, a Union 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. Among the court-martialed transgressors presented in this volume are an officer nicknamed ?Stumpy? because he tended to hide behind tree stumps during combat and a man tried for calling his superior a ?miserable reptile.? The gallery of offenders also includes a Vermont colonel who became a chloroform addict and a New York colonel who rode his horse into a barroom, ordered a brandy for himself and one for his horse, then fired his pistol through the ceiling. The stories of fifty misdeeds, along with a statistical exploration of twenty-two thousand 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.