Tarnished Eagles

Tarnished Eagles The Courts-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels by Thomas P Lowry, M.D. Forward by William C Davis, Stackpole 1997, First Edition, HB/DJ, New.

“Tells the stories of 50 Union colonels court-martialed for offenses such as drunkenness, insulting superiors, hiding during battles, and chloroform addiction. These stories, along with statistical exploration of 22,000 other courts-martial, provide a pioneering and amusing study of Civil War misbehavior and clarify the dynamics between soldiers and their superiors.”