Robert P. Broadwater

Civil War Special Forces (eBook, ePUB)

The Elite and Distinct Fighting Units of the Union and Confederate Armies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely addition to Civil War history shares the stories of 25 unique military organizations, showing how past and future collided in the first modern war. The Civil War, of course, pitted North against South. It also pitted ancient ways of war against new, technology-inspired weaponry and tactics. In surveying the war's elite fighting units, this work covers both. The book showcases novel weapons and unorthodox strategies, including machine gunners, rocket battalions, chemical corps, the Union balloon corps, and the Confederate submarine service, all of which harnessed new technologies and were forerunners of the modern military. Chapters also cover archaic special forces, such as lancers and pikers, that had their last hurrah during this transformational conflict. Readers will also meet the fighting youth of the North Carolina Junior Reserves, the "Graybeards" of North Carolina, and the female combatants of the Nancy Harts Militia of Georgia. Going where few other studies have gone, the book fills a gap in existing Civil War literature and brings to life the stories of many of the most extraordinary units that ever served in an American army. The tales it tells will prove fascinating to Civil War and weapons buffs and to general readers alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216061397
• Artikelnr.: 68354015

Autorenporträt

Robert P. Broadwater has written or contributed to 30 books on the American Revolution and the Civil War. He is the author of Gettysburg as the Generals Remembered It: Postwar Perspectives of Ten Commanders and American Generals of the Revolutionary War: A Biographical Dictionary.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Zouaves 2. The Lancers 3. The Pikemen 4. The Horse
Artillery 5. The Machine Gunners 6. The Rocket Battalion 7. The Chemical
Corps 8. Light Divisions 9. The Balloon Corps 10. The Signal Corps 11.
Snipers and Sharpshooters 12. The Ambulance Corps 13. Partisan Rangers 14.
Scouts and Spies 15. The Marines 16. Sappers and Miners 17. Junior Reserves
18. Senior Reserves 19. The Submariners 20. The Ironclads 21. The Women 22.
The U.S. Colored Troops 23. The Native Americans 24. Summation of Combat
Efficiency Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index