Steven Ramold

Baring the Iron Hand

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a comprehensive examination of discipline in the Union Army, exploring issues of citizenship, masculinity, and hierarchy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780875804088
• ISBN-10: 087580408X
• Artikelnr.: 26826792

Autorenporträt

Steven J. Ramold is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Slaves, Sailors, Citizens.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter
One: "Ancient un-American articles": American Military Justice to 1861
Two: "Damn Fool!": The Relationship between Officers and Enlisted Men
Three: "Fields of Satan": The Impulse of Indiscipline
Four: "Brawls, riots, and midnight orgies": Alcohol and the Union Army
Five: "There were threats to shoot the officers": Insubordination in
Various Forms
Six: "The Pernicious Practice of Treasonable Persons": Desertion in the
Union Army
Seven: "Descend to the level of the barbarians": Theft, Property, and
Violent Crimes
0 Eight: "No punishment can be too severe": The Process of Courts-martial
Nine: "We have no right to shoot them": The Application of Punishment
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index