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The men stood like iron : how the Iron Brigade won its name / Lance J. Herdegen.
- Title
- The men stood like iron : how the Iron Brigade won its name / Lance J. Herdegen.
- Author
- Herdegen, Lance J.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E493.7 .I72 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 271 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The dramatic story of how the backwoods frontier boys of Indiana and Wisconsin became soldiers of an "Iron Brigade," a unit so celebrated that General George McClellan called it "equal to the best troops in any army in the world."
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Gettysburg : July 4, 1863 -- Marching day and night -- Greenhorn patriots -- The volunteer army of 1861 -- Alas, it was a dream -- Little Mac -- The fair Miss Peters -- Massa Linkum's men -- The boss soldier -- Hindquarters in the saddle -- Come on, God damn you! -- I would not like to hear it again -- Devil take the hindmost -- The little colonel -- The army ran like sheep -- We have got a general now -- The Iron Brigade of the West -- Sharpsburg, Maryland -- The cornfield -- Give 'em hell! -- Too horrible to behold -- The men have stood like iron -- May God bless us -- The government has gone mad.
- ISBN
- 0253332214 (cl : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96031095^
- OCLC
- 35001912
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library