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Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools

Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0803280246
ISBN-13 : 9780803280243
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Book Synopsis Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools by : Thomas P. Lowry

Download or read book Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools written by Thomas P. Lowry and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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