Maryland's Blue and Gray: A Border State's Union and Confederate Junior Officer Corps - Hardcover

Ruffner, Kevin Conley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807121355 ISBN 13: 9780807121351

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 1997

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Book by Simon Norma

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Maryland's Blue and Gray is a collective biography focusing on the 365 men from Maryland who served as captains and lieutenants in the Virginia theater of operations, specifically with the Army of the Potomac's Maryland Brigade and the Army of Northern Virginia's Maryland Line. These soldiers provide a rare opportunity to investigate the backgrounds, military careers, and wartime experiences of a specific group who fought on both sides of the nation's bloodiest and most contentious war. Ruffner examines the effects of the conflict on the officer corps in terms of promotions, morale, and discipline, and on their relationships with the home front, subordinates, and commanders. Ruffner offers insight into the cultural affinities between the Union and Confederate Marylanders as well as into the nature of the divisiveness that resulted in deadly combat. A groundbreaking study, Maryland's Blue and Gray utilizes both military and social history to plumb the motivations, ambitions, and experiences of men from a single state that, like the country at large, was torn asunder.

Biografía del autor:

Kevin Conley Ruffner is a historian for the Central Intelligence Agency and the author or coauthor of two volumes in the Virginia Regimental History Series. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0807121355
• ISBN 13: 9780807121351
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428