The Bloody Fifth
Subtitle: a history of the Fifth Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, as told through its soldiers
By: John F. Schmutz
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Savas Beatie LLC; Savas Beatie
Published: 2015
Place of publication: El Dorado Hills, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781611212044; 9781611212051
Subjects: Campaigns; Confederate States of America; Regimental histories; Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 5th; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "We had become the not unwilling servants of Uncle Jeff": the organization of the Fifth Infantry Regiment; title: "All quiet on the Potomac": winter quarters, 1861-1862; title: First blood: defending the capital: the Peninsula Campaign; title: "To your gun-boats, run, boys, run": the Seven Days Battles; title: "The very vortex of hell": the Second Manassas Campaign; title: "O, what sad letters we have to write": the First Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam; title: "It is well that war is so terrible!: the Fredericksburg Campaign; title: "All were defeated; all were victorious": winter 1862-1863; title: "We just swim in bacon": the Suffolk Campaign, spring 1863; title: "We intend to go to Cincinnati by way of New York": the Second Northern Invasion; title: "The angel of death had done fearsome work at Little Round Top that day": the Battle of Gettysburg; title: "The meanest, most unsatisfactory place": the battle of chickamauga; title: "Carry me back to ole virginny": the chattanooga and knoxville campaigns; title: "Bloody stains on the frozen ground": winter in Tennessee, 1863-1864; title: "Texans always move them": the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; title: "The bullets seemed to fly in sheets": Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna and Cold Harbor; title: "The Texas Brigade is always ready": the fighting for the defense of Richmond, 1864; title: "Castles in the air": winter quarters, 1864-1965; title: "I'd rather have died than surrendered": the retreat to Appomattox; title: "These men suffered all, sacrificed all, endured all": the long journey home.