Badax Tigers (eBook)

From Shiloh to the Surrender with the 18th Wisconsin Volunteers

Thomas P. Nanzig (Herausgeber)

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2007
384 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-7111-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Badax Tigers is a rich chronicle of the experiences of Company C of the 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the entire Civil War. Seen through the eyes of Private Thomas Jefferson Davis, this is an extraordinarily complete picture of a typical Federal volunteer company in the Civil War. Davis's letters, supplemented by newspaper articles and letters of other soldiers, offer readers an intimate and revelatory unit history.

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When the Badax County Tigers left the small town of Viroqua, Wisconsin, in the autumn of 1861, they had little notion of what military service would demand of them. The Badax Tigers were as common a company in as common a regiment as may be found in the annals of the Civil War. They marched, camped, and fought their way through four years of service with their fair share of battle honors and few blemishes to mar their record. They rallied at Shiloh, stood firm at Corinth, laid siege to Vicksburg, rescued Chattanooga, and saved Allatoona. In short, they represented the backbone of the Federal volunteer army from 1861 to 1865. When the original Tigers returned to Viroqua at the close of the war, they numbered only fourteen men out of the more than 100 recruits who had been mustered into service.This intimate unit history of the Badax Tigers chronicles the experiences of Company C of the 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the entire Civil War as seen through the eyes of Private Thomas Jefferson Davis. Daviss letters provide an extraordinarily complete picture of a typical Federal volunteer company in the Civil War. Supplemented by newspaper articles and the letters of some soldiers that were written and intended for publication in local newspapers, The Badax Tigers is a detailed and comprehensive portrait of the Civil War from the perspective of the average soldier.

Autor

Thomas P. Nanzig is the editor of The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman: Lt. Robert T. Hubard Jr. and the president of the Ann Arbor Civil War Round Table.

Inhalt

PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: They Had About Become Bare-Assed TigersChapter 2: Events of No Ordinary CharacterChapter 3: We Live As WoodchucksChapter 4: The Sound Was Anything But MusicalChapter 5: The Canal That General Butler CommencedChapter 6: Closed Up Snugly Around VicksburgChapter 7: They Have Kept Us Jogging Pretty GoodChapter 8: An Open Confession Is Good for the SoulChapter 9: Sherman Is Slowly Driving the RebsChapter 10: We Dosed Them with Blue PillsChapter 11: The News Is Glorious and the Future Is BrightChapter 12: I Will Never Be a Military DogPostscriptBibliography18th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Statistics18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Organizational Chart: 1862–1865Roster of Company C, 18th Wisconsin Volunteer InfantryBadax Tigers Statistics

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2007
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-7425-7111-4 / 0742571114
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-7111-2 / 9780742571112