Author : Webb B. Garrison
Release : 2001
Genre : HISTORY
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 158/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mutiny in the Civil War by : Webb B. Garrison
Download or read book Mutiny in the Civil War written by Webb B. Garrison. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ever study on mutiny during the Civil War, covering approximately two hundred separate incidents, and in startling fashion, highlights and dramatizes the rigid class distinctions of military machines on both sides, in which the gulf between a commissioned officer and a private was stupendously wide. Here Webb Garrison dispels the romantic and nostalgic notion that every man carrying a musket or rifle revered his officers and his central government. At the same time, sources of many mutinies show us how clumsy and inefficient the war effort really was.