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This book examines what the citizen soldiery of the mid-Atlantic states wore when they marched off to save the Union in 1861. An exhaustive search of thousands of newspapers has provided a myriad of reports and personal accounts from soldie

Reveals the tactics, technologies, and specially raised units at the heart of the Union's conduct of combined operations in the American Civil War. During the Civil War, as well as confronting the Confederates on land, the Union forces mou

Contrary to the image portrayed by Hollywood, the infantry played as great a part in the Indian Wars of the 1860s-80s, and were more consistently successful than their more famous counterparts in the Cavalry. The great Paiute War of 1866, w