Title: Tarnished eagles
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry, Officers, United States, United States. Army, Trials (Military offenses), History, Military, LAW, Armed Forces, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: KF7641 .L69 1998