The Men Stood Like Iron

by Herdegen, Lance J.

• ISBN13: 9780253218254
• ISBN10: 025321825X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

No volunteers tramped with more innocent resolve on the drill fields of 1861 than the farmers, immigrants, shopkeepers, and "piney" camp boys who volunteered for the Second, Sixth, and Seventh Wisconsin and the Nineteenth Indiana Infantry. The Men Stood Like Iron is the moving, often melancholy, story of how the backwoods "Calico boys" became soldiers of the celebrated "Iron Brigade."Lance J. Herdegen is Director of the Institute for Civil War Studies at Carroll College. Herdegen has written for many national publications and is author of the award-winning In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg.

Author Biography

Lance J. Herdegen is Director of the Institute for Civil War Studies at Carroll College. Herdegen has written for many national publications and is author of the award-winning In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Gettysburg: July 4, 1863	3	(8)
Marching Day and Night	11	(7)
Greenhorn Patriots	18	(8)
The Volunteer Army of 1861	26	(5)
Alas, It Was a Dream	31	(10)
Little Mac	41	(8)
The Fair Miss Peters	49	(8)
Massa Linkum's Men	57	(7)
The Boss Soldier	64	(10)
Hindquarters in the Saddle	74	(13)
Come On, God Damn You!	87	(7)
I Would Not Like to Hear It Again	94	(11)
Devil Take the Hindmost	105	(9)
The Little Colonel	114	(11)
The Army Ran Like Sheep	125	(8)
We Have Got a General Now	133	(10)
The Iron Brigade of the West	143	(11)
Sharpsburg, Maryland	154	(9)
The Cornfield	163	(11)
Give 'Em Hell!	174	(11)
Too Horrible to Behold	185	(11)
The Men Have Stood Like Iron	196	(10)
May God Bless Us	206	(6)
The Government Has Gone Mad	212	(7)
Notes	219	(38)
Bibliography	257	(5)
Index	262