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"My brave Mechanics" : the First Michigan Engineers and their Civil War
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Title
"My brave Mechanics" : the First Michigan Engineers and their Civil War / Mark Hoffman ; foreword by William M. Anderson.
ISBN
9780814332924 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0814332927 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xviii, 470 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2007
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-451) and index.
Contents
Volunteer engineers
The sinews of war
Camp Owen
South to Kentucky and Tennessee
On to Corinth
With Mitchel to the Tennessee
Work and warfare along the Tennessee
Into battle at Perryville
Mutiny
The fight at Lavergne
Filling vacant ranks
Forward to Murfreesboro
Back across the Tennessee
Holding Chattanooga for the Union
Building the supply net
Protecting Sherman's supply line
Wheeler, elections, Atlanta, and a new regiment
More men
Atlanta and the march to the sea
With Thomas in Tennessee
Into the Carolinas
Final weeks of the war
Homeward bound
Postwar heroes.
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