The Boys of Adams' Battery G : The Civil War through the Eyes of a Union Light Artillery Unit

Grandchamp, Robert

McFarland & Co Inc（2009/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 313 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786444731
• DDC分類 973.7445

Full Description

Raised from Rhode Island farmers and millworkers in the autumn of 1861, the Union soldiers of Battery G fought in such bloody conflicts as Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, and Cedar Creek. At the storming of Petersburg on April 2, 1865, seven cannoneers were awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the face of the enemy. This history captures the battlefield exploits of the "Boys of Hope" but also depicts camp life, emerging cannon technology, and the social events of the Civil War.

Contents

Table of Contents

List of Maps      viii

Acknowledgments     

Foreword by Glenn Laxton     

Introduction     

1. Traditions     

2. Organization and Equipment     

3. Recruiting     

4. Duty on the Potomac     

5. The Peninsula     

6. "A Savage Continual Thunder"     

7. First Fredericksburg     

8. The Death Warrant     

9. Gettysburg     

10. Winter at Brandy     

11. Overland to Richmond     

12. Into the Valley     

13. Bloody Autumn     

14. Consolidation     

15. "The Forlorn Hope"     

16. Taps     

Appendix I: Roster of Battery G, First Rhode Island Light Artillery     

Appendix II: Roster of Attached Men     

Appendix III: Casualties of Battery G, First Rhode Island Light Artillery           

Appendix IV: Enlistments by Town     

Appendix V: Occupations of Battery G Soldiers     

Chapter Notes     

Bibliography     

Index