Tarnished eagles
Subtitle: the courts-martial of fifty Union colonels and lieutenant colonels
By: Thomas P. Lowry ; with a foreword by William C. Davis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Mechanicsburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: United States. Army -- Officers.; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Trials (Military offenses) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-251) and index.