Late to the Fight

Union Soldier Combat Performance from the Wilderness to the Fall of Petersburg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Alexandre F. Caillot, Alexandre F Caillot, T. Michael Parrish, T Michael Parrish

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In Late to the Fight, Alexandre F. Caillot explores the combat performance of the Union soldiers who filled newly raised regiments that fought through the Civil War's final year. Historians have typically regarded these late enlistees as substandard to those who signed on at the war's start. Using the experiences of the 17th Vermont and 31st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiments to assess the record of late-arriving soldiers under fire, Caillot shows that these forgotten boys in blue left behind a record of valor and sacrifice essential to achieving the destruction of the Confederacy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-05-07
Mått229 x 21 x 152 mm
Vikt656 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieConflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Antal sidor310
FörlagLouisiana State University Press
ISBN9780807183830

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"In a deft combination of social and operational military history, Caillot defies some of the Civil War's most enduring stereotypes. Usefully shifting our focus from why men fought to how they performed under fire, he recovers a remarkable tale of two federal regiments surmounting seemingly unthinkable challenges during the conflict's most punishing campaigns. Caillot scrubs the tarnish from the reputation of the Union's late-war enlistees. Methodologically rich and carefully argued, this is that rare book that challenges readers to rethink their conclusions—as well as their questions." - Brian Matthew Jordan, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War"With great attention to detail and a focused effort to resurrect the story of two Union regiments raised for service late in the Civil War, Caillot has offered us a new take on an old subject. Late war men and the units they created deserve respect as effective military men and organizations, Caillot convincingly argues, as he deploys personal accounts, statistical analysis, and official reports to support this important study of late war men on campaign and in battle." - Earl J. Hess, author of Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield"A splendid read. Caillot's insightful small-unit analysis succeeds in refuting the 'unsoldierly' reputation of those men who joined the Union army late in the war. Despite the mistrust of their veteran comrades, these soldiers bravely endured the test of combat in the final year of the war in the East." - Steven E. Sodergren, author of The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864–1865