The Men Stood Like Iron

by Herdegen, Lance J.

• ISBN13: 9780253332219
• ISBN10: 0253332214
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

The Men Stood Like Iron is the dramatic story of how the backwoods frontier boys of Indiana and Wisconsin became soldiers of an "Iron Brigade", a unit so celebrated that General George McClellan called it "equal to the best troops in any army in the world". Created following the Union defeat at Bull Run, the brigade won immediate attention for being the only all-Western brigade of the Eastern armies and for the tall black hats issued to the soldiers. It was a year before the brigade saw any action, but when the fighting began, it was relentless. In four battles over three weeks - Brawner's Farm, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam - the Iron Brigade earned its name at terrible cost. By Appomattox Court House, the brigade had suffered a proportionally greater number of battle deaths than any other Federal unit.

Table of Contents

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