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Lädt ... General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse (Original 2008; 2009. Auflage)von Joseph Glatthaar
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A thorough and readable history of the Army of Northern Virginia. There were, however numerous instances when the reader is beset with some rather copious statistics which while illustrating the erudition of the author would, in my opinion better be served by appearing in an appendix rather than the text. That being said, the overwhelming body of the work offers good insight to not only Robert E. Lee, but also to the soul of the ANV. ( ) Combining classic military history with a wealth of social history insights, Joseph Glatthaar details the exploits and experiences of the Army of Northern Virginia in the aptly titled "General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse." Drawing from a wealth of material, including countless letters and diaries from soldiers of all ranks, the University of North Carolina professor offers a comprehensive view of the Confederacy's most-storied fighting force. While never skimping on descriptions of overall tactics in battle, Glatthaar is as interested in offering a broad picture of the makeup and general experiences of the soldiers in Lee's army. Alongside details of the Gettysburg Campaign and the massive trench warfare of 1864, there are chapters on such day-to-day issues as medical care, quartermaster supply, religion, and general camp life. Perhaps the greatest contribution of this volume is the attention to the make-up of the army, extrapolated from careful analysis of a 600 soldier sample. This analysis allows Glatthaar to describe the divergent backgrounds of the fighting men, including family wealth and relationship to the institution of slavery. The findings suggest that while the army initially was a mostly representative group of the southern population, as the war progressed replacement soldiers were overwhelmingly drawn from non-slaveholding families of little wealth. This changing demographic makeup of the army is one of the challenges that led to the ultimate collapse and defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia, alongside other better known issues as increasingly limited manpower and the persistent problems of arms, ammunition, and food supplies. Glatthaar also highlights the difficulties in advancing qualified people into officer positions that Lee struggled to overcome, with some success, throughout the war. While the focus of this book is on the common soldier, it is clear that Glatthaar holds Robert E. Lee is great esteem. The surprising implicit argument of this book is that Lee was really the guiding force behind the army, not only in generally aggressive tactical decisions, but as importantly in improving nuts and bolts matters of supply, training, and officer selection. This makes the book's title quite apropos indeed. On the whole, this well-researched volume is an excellent resource on the famed Army of Northern Virginia. While some expecting heavily detailed campaign analysis might be disappointed, those hoping for a more complete portrait of this fighting force will greatly appreciate this book for its scope, its research, and its unexpectedly pleasant prose. This book is worth reading. It is a military, social and political history of the Army of Northern Virginia, and a well written story. I feel that it has too much of a tang of the Lost Cause about it, but perhaps as a Canadian that might be my foreignness to this so American of wars. At any rate, worth reading if you are a Civil War buff. A history of the USA Civil War, exclusively from the perspective of the men who fought on the losing side. The author really digs into the mentality of the people who served in the Confederate army, relying on letters written by those men to get a sense of what motivated them. The dynamic of this civil war was fascinating to me: a smaller army made up of volunteers extremely motivated to defend their way of life fighting largely a defensive war against a much larger and better armed, but less motivated enemy. I was particularly interested in the way Southerners' cultural habits and sense of honour often clashed with their military objectives -- because of the independent spirit prized by Southern culture, their undisciplined behaviour negated their advantage in motivation, for example. This is going to sound stupid, but I had no idea that slavery was such a central issue -- I thought that was one of those myths that grew up around the war, because I couldn't believe that anyone would be motivated to defend slavery on moral grounds (economic grounds, I can see). But Glatthaar shows that slavery was a focal point in the culture of the south, not only by reproducing soldiers' letters that frequently make mention of their "negroes", but by producing a demographic sample that shows how many people benefited from slavery: one-third of the people who served in the army or their families had slaves, and almost half lived in a household that had slaves. Moreover, slave owners frequently "lent" slaves to many of the poorer Southerners who couldn't afford slaves themselves. (In several passages Glatthaar writes about slaves who had been brought into the army by some soldiers to serve as servants -- who then took the first opportunity to run away to the Northern lines, actions that surprised absolutely nobody. Nobody, except for their perplexed ex-owners: some of the rare amusing moments come when the author produces letters home from these Southerners, who couldn't imagine why their slaves had run away, After all, hadn't they always treated them right?. The level of denial is unbelievalble.) The major battles are described in detail, along with the commanding officers. I could have used more maps (a major help in a military history), but since the focus of the book is not on the fighting itself, but the fighters, it wasn't necessary. I really enjoyed the format of the book, which relies heavily on the soldiers' own words to flesh out the picture of the men who fought and why they fought. It was a good introduction to a period in history I knew nothing about. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Dieser Inhalt ist eine Zusammensetzung von Artikeln aus der frei verfugbaren Wikipedia-Enzyklopadie. Seiten: 33. Nicht dargestellt. Kapitel: Kurhannoversches Dragoner-Regiment von Ramdohr," Elbzollfregatte, Liste der kur-braunschweig-luneburgischen Regimenter, Stadtbefestigung Hannover, 19. Infanterie-Division, Polizei-Bataillon 111, King's German Legion, Aegidientorplatz, 267. Infanterie-Division, Der Konigliche Ernst August, Hannoversche Landwehr, 1. Hannoversches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 74, Steintor, Clevertor, Heeres-Reitschule, X. Armee-Korps, Leintor, Neues Tor, 20. Division, 19. Division, Bruhltor. Auszug: Das erste Dragonerregiment des Kurfurstentums Braunschweig-Luneburg war ein Kavallerieverband des kurhannoverschen Militars bis 1803. Das kurhannoversche schwere Dragonerregiment (D I von 1671/1), ab 1781 das Dragonerregiment von Ramdohr," ab 1783 auch 5. Kavallerieregiment genannt, war das erste und alteste Dragonerregiment auf der Stammliste der Kavallerie in der Armee des Kurfursten von Braunschweig-Luneburg. Dieser war nach dem Act of Settlement von 1701 gleichzeitig der uberaus machtige Konig von Grossbritannien (Begrundung des englischen Konigshauses Hannover). In den Kabinettskriegen des 18. Jahrhunderts und den Koalitionskriegen gegen das revolutionare und spater napoleonische Frankreich stand Kurhannover daher stets Seite an Seite mit der britischen Armee, was sich auch tiefgreifend auf den Stil der Uniformierung auswirkte. Die hannoversche Linienkavallerie bestand hauptsachlich aus mehreren schweren Reiter- bzw. Kurassier-Regimentern und ca. vier schweren Dragoner-Regimentern. Daneben gab es ein Regiment Grenadiere zu Pferd sowie ein Regiment Life Guard bzw. Garde du Corps und ab 1764 auch zwei leichte Dragoner-Regimenter. Die Reiterei der Freikorps und Husaren zahlten zu den irregularen, leichten Truppen. Das Regiment wurde 1671 als "Dragoner-Regiment von Franke" im zu Hannover gehorenden Furstentum Celle errichtet (Bezeichnung nach Tessin: .. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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