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Three Years in the “Bloody Eleventh” : The Campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment / Joseph Gibbs.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Keystone BooksPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2002]Copyright date: 2002Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) : 33 illustrations/6 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271030722
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.7/448 22
LOC classification:
  • E527.5 11th .G53 2002eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A County Divided -- 2 Soldiers in Dead Earnest: Camp Wright to Camp Tennally -- 3 No More Bull Run Affairs: Great Falls, Dranesville, and the March to the Rappahannock -- 4 One of the Awfulest Battles the World Has Ever Witnessed: The Road to Gaines’ Mill -- 5 Another Way to Take Richmond: Libby Prison, Belle Isle, and Glendale -- 6 Shot Down Like Sheep: Second Bull Run -- 7 Brave Comrades Falling: South Mountain and Antietam -- 8 Butchered Like So Many Animals: Fredericksburg -- 9 A Regiment Worth Its Weight in Gold: Gettysburg -- 10 Duty in the Context of the Cartridge Box: Falling Waters, Bristoe Station, and Mine Run -- 11 Winter 1863-1864 -- 12 An Awful Sight of Men Cut Up: The Wilderness to Bethesda Church -- 13 A Remnant Returns: Muster-Out -- 14 “He Will Sit with a Small Mirror, and Look at His Reflection”: An Epilogue to the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Hailing from the Keystone State’s rugged western counties, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves was one of the Civil War’s most heavily engaged units. Of more than 2,100 regiments raised by the North, it suffered the eighth highest percentage of battle deaths, earning it the gruesome sobriquet "Bloody Eleventh." Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" tells the story of this often-overlooked element of the Army of the Potomac from before the war up through 1864. Drawing on letters, diaries, and archival documents, Joseph Gibbs writes of men such as Colonel Thomas Gallagher, who led his troops into battle smoking a cigar, and Samuel Jackson, who became the regiment’s commander following Gallagher’s promotion. He rediscovers the complexities of the men who commanded the brigades and divisions of which the Eleventh Reserves was a part—figures such as George Meade, John Reynolds, and Samuel Crawford. While Gibbs writes about the officers, he never loses sight of the men in the ranks who marched into places such as Gaines’ Mill, Miller’s Cornfield at Antietam, and the Wheatfield at Gettysburg. Nor does he forget the homes, wives, and children they left behind in western Pennsylvania. With its meticulous research and lucid prose, Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" provides both scholars and Civil War enthusiasts with an unprecedented look inside the trials and tribulations of one of the war’s most battle-tested units.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A County Divided -- 2 Soldiers in Dead Earnest: Camp Wright to Camp Tennally -- 3 No More Bull Run Affairs: Great Falls, Dranesville, and the March to the Rappahannock -- 4 One of the Awfulest Battles the World Has Ever Witnessed: The Road to Gaines’ Mill -- 5 Another Way to Take Richmond: Libby Prison, Belle Isle, and Glendale -- 6 Shot Down Like Sheep: Second Bull Run -- 7 Brave Comrades Falling: South Mountain and Antietam -- 8 Butchered Like So Many Animals: Fredericksburg -- 9 A Regiment Worth Its Weight in Gold: Gettysburg -- 10 Duty in the Context of the Cartridge Box: Falling Waters, Bristoe Station, and Mine Run -- 11 Winter 1863-1864 -- 12 An Awful Sight of Men Cut Up: The Wilderness to Bethesda Church -- 13 A Remnant Returns: Muster-Out -- 14 “He Will Sit with a Small Mirror, and Look at His Reflection”: An Epilogue to the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Hailing from the Keystone State’s rugged western counties, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves was one of the Civil War’s most heavily engaged units. Of more than 2,100 regiments raised by the North, it suffered the eighth highest percentage of battle deaths, earning it the gruesome sobriquet "Bloody Eleventh." Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" tells the story of this often-overlooked element of the Army of the Potomac from before the war up through 1864. Drawing on letters, diaries, and archival documents, Joseph Gibbs writes of men such as Colonel Thomas Gallagher, who led his troops into battle smoking a cigar, and Samuel Jackson, who became the regiment’s commander following Gallagher’s promotion. He rediscovers the complexities of the men who commanded the brigades and divisions of which the Eleventh Reserves was a part—figures such as George Meade, John Reynolds, and Samuel Crawford. While Gibbs writes about the officers, he never loses sight of the men in the ranks who marched into places such as Gaines’ Mill, Miller’s Cornfield at Antietam, and the Wheatfield at Gettysburg. Nor does he forget the homes, wives, and children they left behind in western Pennsylvania. With its meticulous research and lucid prose, Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" provides both scholars and Civil War enthusiasts with an unprecedented look inside the trials and tribulations of one of the war’s most battle-tested units.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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