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Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade (Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology) Kindle Edition

by Kent Gramm (Author), D. Scott Hartwig (Author), Alan T. Nolan (Editor), Format: Kindle Edition
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This volume of essays by renowned Civil War historians provides a comprehensive history of the legendary Iron Brigade and its service to the Union.
 
Fighting in the Civil War for the Union Army of the Potomac, Brigadier General Rufus King’s Wisconsin Brigade was the only all-Western Brigade to fight for the Eastern armies of the Union. Known as "The Black Hat Brigade" because the soldiers wore the regular army’s dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, they were renowned for their discipline and valor in combat. From Brawner Farm and Second Bull Run to Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, the Western soldiers were giants of the battlefield, earning their reputation as “The Iron Brigade.” And when the war was over, the records showed that it led all federal brigades in percentage of deaths in battle.
 
These essays, by some of the most renowned Civil War historians and experts on the brigade, spotlight significant moments in the history of this celebrated unit.
 
"Editors Alan Nolan and Sharon Eggleston Vipond's insightful essays provide fresh perspectives on the Iron Brigade's exploits, detailing military and political events in the words of actual combatants."—Military Review
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    254 pages
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    Indiana University Press
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    October 22, 1998
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ALAN T. NOLAN is the historian of the Iron Brigade and a native Hoosier. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Indiana Historical Society, a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, and a founder and former President of the Indianapolis Civil War Round Table. Since its original publication in 1961, his classic history The Iron Brigade has been named by Civil War Times Illustrated as one of the "100 best books ever written on the Civil War." He has also written Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History (Main Selection of the History Book Club and Book of the Month Alternate Selection), the contemporary novel As Sounding Brass, and has contributed essays to The First Day at Gettysburg, The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock, and a 1996 anthology on Robert E. Lee. He is the author of articles in such publications as Civil War Times Illustrated, Civil War, Indiana Magazine of History, Virginia Cavalcade, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The American Historical Review, and Gettysburg Magazine. He has lectured widely on Civil War topics, including at the Smithsonian Institution and various colleges and universities, and has been granted an honorary doctorate from Indiana University (1993) and the Nevins-Freeman award by the Chicago Civil War Round Table (1994). He has appeared in The Civil War Journal series on cable television's Arts and Entertainment Network. An attorney and graduate of Indiana University and the Harvard Law School, he lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
SHARON EGGLESTON VIPOND was born and raised in northwestern Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota with undergraduate degrees in history and English and a doctorate in communications. A member of the Milwaukee Civil War Round Table, Iron Brigade Association, and Wisconsin State Historical Society, she works as an educational technology specialist for Oracle Corporation and lives with her husband and family in Woodstock, Georgia.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N7GABHM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press; 2001st 2001st ed. edition (October 22, 1998)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 22, 1998
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 10.7 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0253334578
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    I have been reading quite a few books on the Iron Brigade, and I found this book to be a really good one on the brigade. I would highly recommend it.
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