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A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
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A unit that saw significant action in many of the engagements of the Civil War’s eastern theater.
 
Until this work, no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted, and problems attend the few studies of particular Florida units that have appeared. Based on more than two decades of research, Waters and Edmonds have produced a study that covers all units from Florida in the ANV, and does so in an objective and reliable fashion.
 
Drawn from what was then a turbulent and thinly settled frontier region, the Florida troops serving in the Confederacy were never numerous, but they had the good or bad luck of finding themselves at crucial points in several significant battles such as Gettysburg where their conduct continues to be a source of contention. Additionally, the study of these units and their service permits an examination of important topics affecting the Civil War soldier: lack of supplies, the status of folks at home, dissension over civilian control of soldiers and units from the various Confederate states, and widespread and understandable problems of morale. Despite the appalling conditions of combat, these soldiers were capable of the highest courage in combat. This work is an important contribution to the record of Lee’s troops, ever a subject of intense interest.

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Release dateNov 5, 2013
ISBN9780817387112
A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
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Zack C. Waters

A fifth-generation Floridian, Zack Waters has a B.A. degree from the University of Florida and a law degree from Memphis State University. For the past twenty years, he has taught literature and language arts at Rome Middle School in Rome, Georgia. He is a frequent contributor to Civil War publications on the topic of Florida’s Confederate soldiers.

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    While I wasn't sure that this monograph was going to rise much above antiquarian interest the authors do get the most out of their limited and fragmented resources to tell the story of a unit that was scapegoated more often than it was celebrated, but which came into its own during Grant's Overland Campaign and the long siege at Petersburg. Even if you have no use for the cause one does have to respect the hardihood of those who endured; the authors having a good eye for dubious command politics, grossly inadequate supply and the ghastly misery that is the aftermath of a battle.

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