Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools: The Courts-Martial of Civil War Union Colonels by Thomas P. Lowry

Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools: The Courts-Martial of Civil War Union Colonels

Thomas P. Lowry

258 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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During the Civil War, a Union colonel was five times more likely to be court-martialed than a private. Among the court-martialed transgressors presented in this volume are an officer nicknamed 'Stumpy' because he tended to hide behind tree stumps ...

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