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Journal articles on the topic "South Carolina Infantry Regiment"

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Marrs, Aaron W. "Desertion and Loyalty in the South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1865." Civil War History 50, no. 1 (2004): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2004.0019.

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Stacey, Christopher. "A Yankee Regiment in Confederate Louisiana: The 31st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Gulf South by Larry Lowenthal." Journal of Southern History 88, no. 1 (2022): 168–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/soh.2022.0022.

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Barclay, Gordon J. "The military uses of Holyrood Park, Edinburgh in the First World War." Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 150 (November 30, 2021): 327–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/psas.150.1319.

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This paper tells the story of the ephemeral and relatively fleeting use of Holyrood Park, Edinburgh between 1914 and 1919. The domestic life and training regime of the units who camped in the Park, in particular the 10th (Liverpool Scottish) King’s Regiment (Liverpool), is described using contemporary documents and photographs. The practice trenches and anti-invasion defences in the south-east corner of the Park are described, along with the large First World War infantry training camp, rediscovered during the research, in the grounds of Duddingston House. The paper also considers the interaction between the soldiery and the city, within the constraints imposed by paucity of evidence – with individuals and with the city’s civic life and its role in the war. Light is cast on socially conservative and morally judgemental views of the interaction between soldiers and young women – the ‘khaki fever’ of the early months of the war.

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McCaffrey, James M., and Jack Allen Meyer. "South Carolina in the Mexican War: A History of the Palmetto Regiment of Volunteers, 1846-1917." Journal of Southern History 63, no. 3 (1997): 658. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2211673.

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SELLICK, GARY. "“Undistinguished Destruction”: The Effects of Smallpox on British Emancipation Policy in the Revolutionary War." Journal of American Studies 51, no. 3 (2016): 865–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875816001353.

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In 1775, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, offered freedom to any African American who fought for the British cause against the colonial rebels in his province. Dunmore's plan to reconquer Virginia with his “Ethiopian Regiment” ended in failure, not due to a lack of willing volunteers but because of a familiar eighteenth-century killer: smallpox. Five years later, similar proclamations were issued in South Carolina. Yet smallpox again hindered British designs, devastating the eager African Americans who flooded to their lines. This paper uses primary source material and research on smallpox to analyze the experiences of African Americans who actively sought freedom with the British during the Revolutionary War. Focussing on the differing regions of Virginia and South Carolina this paper will assess the impact of smallpox on British military designs for runaway slaves while also evaluating the reasons why the disease had such a devastating effect on African Americans during the period. Overall, this paper will show how smallpox, so common in eighteenth-century Europe, put a fatal end to the first widespread push for emancipation on the American continent and helped derail one of Britain's best hopes for turning the tide in the Revolutionary War.

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Osborn, Kyle. "Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate by Michael K. Brantley, and: "On Rising Ground": The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, 52nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. by Elaine Fowler Palencia." Journal of Southern History 88, no. 2 (2022): 390–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/soh.2022.0079.

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Спатарь-Козаченко, Татьяна, and Tatyana Spatar-Kozachenko. "Memorial complexes – cultural and historical heritage of future generations." Services in Russia and abroad 9, no. 2 (2015): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/11901.

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The article is devoted to the Great Patriotic War, the Iasi-Chisinau and Uman-Botoshani offensives, the glorious feats of the Soviet sons on the battlefields and in the rear, who were able to save the world from the fascist tyranny. Uman-Botoshani offensive began March 5, 1944. The author tells about this complicated operation, which has resulted to the releasing of southern regions of Right Bank of Ukraine, part of the Moldavian Soviet republic, as a result, the Red Army crossed the Soviet border, entering the territory of the Romanian kingdom. The important role of the Iasi-Kishinev operation is emphasized, which began on August 20, 1944. During these battles was destroyed largest German-Romanian grouping is in this area. The author offers the route visiting of battle glory places in the Republic of Moldova, where the rise on pedestals legendary tanks T-34-85. The monument &#34;Tank&#34; to liberators of northern Beltsy city - battle tank T-34, which was struck in the fighting in the course the Iasi-Kishinev operation. Many defenders of Beltsy became its honorable citizens: Hero of the Soviet Union B. Makeev, twice Hero of the Soviet Union I. Konev, three times Hero of the Soviet Union I. Kozhedub, three times Hero of the Soviet Union A. Pokryshkin. The second memorial is Mound of Glory in Dubossary. Kurgan stands on a man-made T-34. In 1968 from the Dniester River was extracted a fighting machine with the remains of the crew. In Tiraspol at the Memorial of Glory established the T-34-85. It is a monument to the fallen soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. The crew was perished in Hungary. In the Gagauz Comrat city August 22, 1989, was erected on a pedestal of the tank T-34 of the 36th a tank brigade, which has participated in battles for the city. The next point of our route is south of Moldova. Here, at the beginning of the war had taken an unequal battle and had fought heroically the border guards. On the road Cahul - Moscovei erected a monument &#34;Tank&#34;, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the victory over fascism. Between the villages of Leuseni-Onesti is situated a memorial complex with a monument to the Unknown Soldier. In 1941 in this place perished in an unequal battle with the occupiers soldiers of the 161th Moldovan infantry regiment. 25 years later the monument was erected - on top of the mountain on a pedestal stands a legendary machine T-34-85, which a quarter of a century has laid on the bottom of the river Prut. The last point of our route is the village Chinisheuzi in Rezina district. Villagers were initiators of fundraising for the construction of a tank column: from the residents of Moldova collected more than half a million rubles and built column &#34;From Moldova workers.&#34; The article tells about the threat of the dismantling of monuments to soldiers-liberators and their protection of citizens of the republic. The silent witnesses of past battles of heroes of the Great Patriotic War are stand on pedestals, reminding for us, the descendants, that we must cherish the historical memory.

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"Edward A. Miller, Jr. The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 267. $29.95." American Historical Review, June 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr/104.3.912.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "South Carolina Infantry Regiment"

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Dozier, Graham Town. "The Eighteenth North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02092007-102014/.

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Richard, Ashlie. "A Case Study of Civil War Environmental and Medical History Through the Disease Seasoning of the 58th North Carolina Infantry Regiment in East Tennessee." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3784.

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This thesis is a case study aimed at a key argument in the emerging field of Civil War medical and environmental history. While historians have long acknowledged disease as a major killer during the Civil War, only recently have environmental and medical historians turned their collective attentions to unpacking the complex interconnections of disease, environmental conditions, and culture. By examining the 58th North Carolina Infantry Regiment from the mountains of western North Carolina, this thesis asserts that the combined role of the disease environment and conditions in military camps created the massive outbreaks of disease that characterized the seasoning process of the regiment. Furthermore, the soldiers were practical in their response to conditions, weighing family, nation, and other factors in the face of death. When the threat of disease combined with personal and other factors, many soldiers deserted or took other actions of self-preservation over loyalty to the Confederacy.

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Richard, Ashlie. "A Case Study of Civil War Environmental and Medical History Through the Disease Seasoning of the 58th North Carolina Infantry Regiment in East Tennessee." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3784.

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This thesis is a case study aimed at a key argument in the emerging field of Civil War medical and environmental history. While historians have long acknowledged disease as a major killer during the Civil War, only recently have environmental and medical historians turned their collective attentions to unpacking the complex interconnections of disease, environmental conditions, and culture. By examining the 58th North Carolina Infantry Regiment from the mountains of western North Carolina, this thesis asserts that the combined role of the disease environment and conditions in military camps created the massive outbreaks of disease that characterized the seasoning process of the regiment. Furthermore, the soldiers were practical in their response to conditions, weighing family, nation, and other factors in the face of death. When the threat of disease combined with personal and other factors, many soldiers deserted or took other actions of self-preservation over loyalty to the Confederacy.

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Borges, Vítor. "O RI 14 nas Campanhas do Sul de Angola da I GM." Master's thesis, IUM, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/11396.

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O presente trabalho de investigação pretende caraterizar a participação do 3.º Batalhão Expedicionário do Regimento de Infantaria 14, que participou nas Campanhas do Sul de Angola da I Guerra Mundial, em 1914 e 1915. Esta participação enquadra-se no envolvimento de Portugal no conflito, em três teatros de operações terrestres distintos: Angola, Moçambique e França. Em particular, a colónia de Angola estava ameaçada a Sul pelos colonos bóeres e alemães que tentavam revoltar as populações locais contra o domínio português e por forças militares junto à fronteira. Neste cenário, debaixo do comando do Tenente Coronel Alves Roçadas é formada uma expedição, com destino ao Sul de Angola, constituída por subunidades de combate de Infantaria, Metralhadoras, Artilharia de Montanha e Cavalaria. Começamos por apresentar o estado da arte, abordando as obras que foram escritas sobre a história do RI 14, bem como sobre as suas campanhas. O RI 14 criado em 1806, fruto da reorganização do Exército Português de então, veio, em 1914, a mobilizar o 3.º Batalhão Expedicionário, unidade estudada, e que integrou a expedição comandada inicialmente por Alves Roçadas. Segue-se o procedimento metodológico, definindo o modelo de análise, passando à apresentação da análise da campanha de per se. Como síntese, conclui-se do estudo, que o Batalhão partiu para África sem qualquer doutrina enquadrante, que definisse o seu emprego, tipologia de operações a executar e como se proceder à preparação para o terreno e inimigo que se iria encontrar. A organização do Batalhão era a normal na época e não teve influência negativa direta nos empenhamentos táticos e desfecho da campanha. O Batalhão praticamente não se preparou para a missão, que resultou no fraco entrosamento e grande heterogeneidade dos militares, tornado evidente no desempenho em combate demonstrado em Naulila. Inicialmente não se verificaram limitações de material mas, a partir de finais de dezembro de 1914, toda a ação foi fortemente influenciada pelas grandes dificuldades de material. A liderança superior do Batalhão consistia em oficiais veteranos das campanhas africanas em Angola, Moçambique e em comandantes de pelotão, com apenas duas exceções, que exerceram a sua ação de comando de forma eficaz e reconhecida. Não preparados para operar na dureza do clima africano, a participação do Batalhão foi marcada por pesadas baixas e grandes dificuldades. As condições de vida dos militares eram precárias e a diminuta organização do terreno teve grandes implicações no desenrolar da campanha. Abstract: This research paper aims to characterize the employment of the 3rd Expeditionary Battalion of the 14th Infantry Regiment that participated in the campaigns of southern Angola in World War I, in 1914 and 1915. The Portuguese contribution in the three Theatres of War, Flanders, Angola and Mozambique, frames this expedition. Angola was threatened in its southern border by the Boers colons, as well as by the Germans, who were uprising the indigenous population against the Portuguese rule. The regular German forces in the region also presented a serious challenge. In this scenario, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Alves Roçadas, an expeditionary force is mobilized, composed of Infantry, Machine-guns, Mountain Artillery and Cavalry units. The paper starts presenting the state of the art, addressing the different studies published about the 14th Infantry Regiment history, as well as about its campaigns. The Regiment, founded in 1806, product of the undergoing army’s reorganization, mobilized, in 1914, the 3rd Battalion Expeditionary. This Battalion joined the expedition initially commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Alves Roçadas. It follows the methodological procedure, defining the analysis model, followed by the presentation of the campaign analysis. As a summary, the study concludes that the Battalion left for Africa without any framing doctrine, to define their employment, type of operations to be performed and how to prepare for the terrain and enemy encountered. The organization of the Battalion was normal at the time and had no negative influence on tactical commitments and outcome of the campaign. The Battalion hardly prepared for the mission, which resulted in poor rapport and great heterogeneity of the force, become evident in the combat performance demonstrated in Naulila. Initially there were no limitations of material but from the end of December 1914, all the action was strongly influenced by the great difficulty of material. The top leadership of the Battalion consisted of veteran officers of the African campaigns in Angola and Mozambique. The platoon leaders, with only two exceptions, exercised their command action effectively. Not prepared to operate in the hardness of African climate, the Battalion was marked by heavy casualties and great difficulties. Living conditions were harsh and the poor terrain preparation had major implications in the conduct of the campaign.

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Blysa, Gustav. "Kombinerad bekämpning som metod för verkan : Lätt infanteritaktik under brittiska markoperationerna i Falklandskriget." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-4006.

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Denna undersökning har studerat ett lätt infanteriförbands användning av kombinerad bekämpning som metod för verkan under en amfibieoperation samt vilka aspekter som påverkade möjligheten till kombinerad bekämpning p.g.a. operationens amfibiska karaktär. Fallet har utgjorts av Parachute Regiments två bataljoner som under Falklandskriget utkämpade tre slag vid Darwin – Goose Green, Mount Longdon och Wireless Ridge. Som analysverktyg har använts Robert Leonhards teori om den kombinerade bekämpningens tre principer. Indikatorer på principerna har varit syften med verkan hämtade ur teorin om de grundläggande förmågorna. Två av slagen befanns endast delvis kännetecknas av Leonhards två första principer, principerna om kompletterande system och dilemman. Den tredje principen om fördelaktig terräng uppfylldes inte. Det tredje slaget regementet utkämpade kännetecknades helt igenom av Leonhards två första principer medan den tredje delvis beaktades. Undersökningen konstaterar att kombinerad bekämpning som metod för verkan kan utvecklas av ett lätt infanteriförband under en amfibieoperation. Dock ledde ofördelaktig disponering av förbandet i de aktuella fallen till att kombinerad bekämpning tidvis omöjliggjordes. Leonhards tredje princip tenderade att förringas. De specifikt amfibiska aspekterna avseende möjligheten till kombinerad bekämpning utgjordes främst av tillgången till fartygsartilleri, kraven på helikoptertransporterbart fältartilleri samt bristen på lätta trossfordon.<br>This dissertation has investigated how a light infantry force has used combined arms during an amphibious operation, specific factors related to the operations character affecting the possibility to develop combined arms have also been highlighted. The case chosen for the study was Parachute Regiments actions during the three battles of Darwin – Goose Green, Mount Longdon and Wireless Ridge during the Falklands War. As a analytical tool Robert Leonhard’s theory about the three principles of combined arms was used together with indicators borrowed from the theory about the warfighting functions purposes of fires. Two of the battles were found to be only partially characterized by Leonhard’s first two principles, complementary systems and dilemmas. The third principle about favorable terrain was neglected. The third battle was throughout characterized by the first two principles and to a larger extent than the former by the third principle. The dissertation concludes that light infantry can use combined arms during amphibious operations. The battles studied were, however, often characterized by unfavorable disposition of the force which affected the possibilities to use combined arms. Leonhard´s third principle was usually neglected. The most important amphibious aspects affecting the possibilities to combined arms were found to be naval gunfire support, light field artillery and the scarcity of light all-terrain vehicles.

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Books on the topic "South Carolina Infantry Regiment"

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The 13th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry C.S.A. Broadfoot Pub., 2008.

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Wyckoff, Mac. A history of the Third South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1865. Sergeant Kirkland's Museum and Historical Society, 1995.

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Wyckoff, Mac. A history of the Third South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1865. Sergeant Kirland's, 1998.

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A history of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry, 1861-65. Sergeant Kirkland's Museum & Historical Society, 1994.

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Krick, Robert K. The 14th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. Broadfoot, 2008.

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Dubose, Henry Kershaw. History of Company B, Twenty-first Regiment (Infantry) South Carolina Volunteers: Confederate States Provisional Army. University of South Carolina, 2009.

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History of Company B, Twenty-first Regiment (Infantry) South Carolina Volunteers: Confederate States Provisional Army. University of South Carolina, 2009.

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Krick, Robert K. The 14th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. Broadfoot, 2008.

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Field, Ron. 7th South Carolina Volunteers (Bacon's). Design Folio, 1993.

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Field, Ron. 4th South Carolina Volunteers (Sloan's). Design Folio, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "South Carolina Infantry Regiment"

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McArthur, Judith N., and Orville Vernon Burton. "On the Carolina Coast: Fifth Regiment South Carolina Reserves." In “A Gentleman and an Officer”. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195093124.003.0007.

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"DOWN SOUTH." In History of the 33d Iowa Infantry Volunteer Regiment, 1863–6. University of Arkansas Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1p3xk38.25.

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Keating, Ryan W. "The Formation of the 17th Wisconsin." In Shades of Green. Fordham University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823276592.003.0004.

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This chapter traces Irish immigration to Wisconsin and the formation the 17<sup>th</sup> Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. When war broke out in 1861 the Irish in Wisconsin were slow to rise in unison in defense of the Union. A relatively stable immigrant community, many Irish chose, early in the war, to enlist in ethnically mixed regiments—illustrating the inclusive communities that developed in this Midwestern state during the antebellum period. In winter of 1862, though, vocal Irishmen, playing upon the success of other ethnic units, were given the opportunity to form their own regiment, the 17<sup>th</sup> Wisconsin. Publicly declaring their allegiances to the Irish American community, Wisconsin’s Irish regiment was, in reality, an ethnically diverse unit that attracted men from across the state. As the regiment prepared to move south in the spring of 1862, though, tensions rose and a large number of men mutinied. Supported by local newspaper editors, the demands of these men were seen as expressions of republicanism, illustrating (when compared to the experiences of the Ninth Connecticut) the diverse responses to Irish conduct in communities throughout the north, and the ways these men understood their military service.

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Gerard, Philip. "Gettysburg." In The Last Battleground. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649566.003.0031.

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The three-day battle becomes a turning point for support of the war in North Carolina. The state’s most famous regiment-the 26th-is virtually wiped out. One in four of the 28,000 Confederate casualties is a Tar Heel. Samuel Weaver recovers the Union dead for burial in the national cemetery; his son Rufus takes over the task upon his death and ships the remains of more than 2,900 soldiers South for burial. Meanwhile in North Carolina, the Peace Movement sweeps the state, erupting in 100 rallies calling for the state to make a separate peace with the U.S. Government

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Gerard, Philip. "The Scholar-Warrior." In The Last Battleground. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649566.003.0032.

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James Johnston Pettigrew, born of a prominent planter family, is a gifted scholar at University of North Carolina, but he becomes bored with the life of the intellect and longs for martial adventure. Like other UNC alums and students, he volunteers to fight for the Confederacy and becomes legendary for his reckless courage. He is appointed Colonel of the First Regiment of Rifles in South Carolina and takes part in the fruitless negotiations to assure the surrender of Fort Sumter before it is bombarded. Later he becomes colonel of the 22nd North Carolina and is severely wounded and feared dead at Seven Pines. At Gettysburg he commands Maj. Gen. Harry Heth’s brigade and charges Cemetery Ridge on the third day of battle-and again is seriously wounded. He is killed on the homeward retreat by a Union cavalry trooper.+

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Foote, Lorien. "Felons And Outlaws." In Rites of Retaliation. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469665276.003.0002.

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After Maj. Gen. David Hunter recruited Black men from the Sea Islands to be Union soldiers and Maj. Gen. John Pope issued orders that targeted the morale and resources of the citizens of Virginia, Confederate President Jefferson Davis issued a retaliation proclamation declaring Union officers to be felons unworthy of treatment as prisoners of war. Robert Gould Shaw, an officer in Pope’s army, exemplified the belief that civilized warfare controlled and disciplined soldiers to minimize violence. When the Confederacy reserved Pope’s officers for hanging in Libby Prison, US general-in-chief Henry Wager Halleck adjusted US policy in Virginia. In the Department of the South, activist anti-slavery Federal commanders deployed the Black 1<sup>st</sup> South Carolina on raids to liberate slaves and destroy local resources. Susie King Taylor represented the connection between the regiment and the local Black community. Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon ordered the summary execution of Black men captured in Federal uniform.

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Holden Reid, Brian. "Leaping the Mark." In The Scourge of War. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195392739.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses how, almost from the moment he graduated, William T. Sherman came under pressure to think about leaving the Army. When asked why he did not resign, he gave a forthright answer in 1842: “Why should I? It is the profession for which my education alone fits me, and as all the appearances indicate the rapid approach of action when the soldier will be required to do his proper labor, when a splendid field will be spread before him, every reason exists why I should remain.” The “action” Sherman referred to was the Second Seminole War (1835–42) in Florida. Sherman’s posting to Fort Pierce threw him into his first taste of warfare. He very quickly grasped the nature of this war and the Seminole tactics that had defied the best military minds in America. In June of 1842, the Regiment found itself on the move again, posted to Fort Moultrie, Charleston, South Carolina. Sherman’s main duty consisted of appearing in court martials, as his grasp of military law impressed all. While clinging to the profession he liked best, he developed two attitudes that underwrote his army life. The first concerned party politics, while the second matter involved religion. Both these qualities would be needed by a successful attorney. Yet he remained an army officer and these studies became an important part of his continuing military education.

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