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  Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment brothers one And All mark h. dunkelman   Conflicting Worlds New Dimensions of the American Civil War T. MICHAEL PARRISH, EDITOR ..........................10744$ $$FM 05-13-0414:58:54 PS PAGEi ..........................10744$ $$FM 05-13-0414:58:55 PS PAGEii brothers one and all Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment MARK H. DUNKELMAN louisiana state university press baton rouge ..........................10744$ $$FM 05-28-0410:50:56 PS PAGEiii Copyright(cid:1)2004byMarkH.Dunkelman Allrightsreserved ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Designer:AmandaMcDonaldScallan Typeface:Whitman Typesetter:CoghillCompositionCo. Printerandbinder:Thomson-Shore,Inc. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Dunkelman,MarkH. Brothersoneandall:espritdecorpsinaCivilWarregiment/MarkH.Dunkelman. p.cm.—(Conflictingworlds) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-8071-2978-X(hardcover:alk.paper) 1.UnitedStatesArmy.NewYorkInfantryRegiment,154th(1862–1865)2.UnitedStatesArmy—Military life—History—19thcentury.3.Fellowship—History—19thcentury.4.UnitedStates—History—CivilWar, 1861–1865—Socialaspects.5.Soldiers—NewYork(State)—Socialconditions—19thcentury.6.Soldiers—United States—Socialconditions—19thcentury.7.NewYork(State)—History—CivilWar,1861–1865—Regimental histories.8.UnitedStates—History—CivilWar,1861–1865—Regimentalhistories.I.Title.II.Series. E523.5154th.D855 2004 369(cid:1).15(cid:1)09747—dc22 2004000585 ThepaperinthisbookmeetstheguidelinesforpermanenceanddurabilityoftheCommitteeonProduction GuidelinesforBookLongevityoftheCouncilonLibraryResources.(cid:2)(cid:2) ..........................10744$ $$FM 05-13-0414:58:55 PS PAGEiv Inlovingmemoryofmyparents,HaroldandIrene ..........................10744$ $$FM 05-13-0414:58:55 PS PAGEv ..........................10744$ $$FM 05-13-0414:58:55 PS PAGEvi ontents C Acknowledgments .. ......................................... xi Introduction:ThisLittleBand ................................... 1 part one: Home Ties 1. DemographicsandIdentity .............................. 15 2. LinesofCommunication ................................ 30 3. FriendsandFoes ..................................... 54 part two: WarTies 4. Comrades,Cowards,andSurvivors ......................... 75 5. EnduringHardships ................................... 98 6. OntheBattlefield..................................... 120 7. TheWounded,Captured,andDead ... ...................... 142 8. InCampandBeyond .................................. 170 9. ShoulderStrapsandCourts-Martial ......................... 205 10. MoraleandRegimentalPride ............................. 226 part three: VeteranTies 11. E.D.NorthrupandtheBetrayalofEspritdeCorps .............. 251 Notes .................................................... 279 Bibliography ... ............................................ 315 Index .................................................... 327 vii ..........................10744$ CNTS 05-13-0414:58:58 PS PAGEvii ..........................10744$ CNTS 05-13-0414:58:58 PS PAGEviii llustrations I Map Areaofoperationsofthe154thNewYork 14 Photographs followingpage247 PrivateBarneyMcAvoy PrivatesFrancisM.BowenandMosesBowenJr. FrancisBowen,MosesBowen,andCyrusH.Bowen SergeantAsaBrainardandPrivateCalvinBrainard PrivateJacobWinney SergeantMajorAlexanderBirdandhiswife,MelissaAda(Hyde)Bird PrivateLeviD.Baileyandhiswife,CeliaA.(Stevens)Bailey FirstSergeantAmbroseF.Arnold Currier&IveslithographcommemoratingCorporalSeymourSikes JohnManley,the“Soldier’sFriend” AssistantsurgeonGeorgeH.Bosley CaptainLewisD.Warner CaptainByronA.Johnston,FirstLieutenantAlexanderBird,andCorporal ThomasR.Aldrich Broadsidefor1888encampmentof154thNewYorkveterans Veteransofthe154thNewYorkattheirGettysburgmonument E.D.Northrup,historianofthe154thNewYork ix ..........................10744$ ILLU 05-13-0414:59:02 PS PAGEix

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During the Civil War, the regiment was the fundamental component of armies both North and South, its reliability and effectiveness crucial to military success. Soldiers’ devotion to their regiment—their esprit de corps—encouraged unit cohesion and motivated the individual soldier to march into
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