the campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves regiment /
First Statement of Responsibility
Joseph Gibbs.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
University Park, Pa. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxi, 378 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-356) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Hailing from the Keystone State's rugged western counties, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves was one of the Civil War's most heavily engaged units. Of more than 2,100 regiments raised by the North, it suffered the eighth highest number of battle deaths, earning it the gruesome sobriquet "Bloody Eleventh." Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" tells the story of this often-overlooked element of the Army of the Potomac from before the war up through 1864. Drawing on letters, diaries, and archival documents, Joseph Gibbs writes of men such as Colonel Thomas Gallagher, who led his troops into battle smoking a cigar, and Samuel Jackson, who became the regiment's commander following Gallagher's promotion. He rediscovers the complexities of the men who commanded the brigades and divisions of which the Eleventh Reserves was a part-figures such as George Meade, John Reynolds, and Samuel Crawford.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States.
United States.-- Reserves-- History-- 19th century.
United States.
United States.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Armed Forces-- Reserves.
Military campaigns.
Regimental histories.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Pennsylvania, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Regimental histories.
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Campaigns.
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Regimental histories.
Pennsylvania.
United States, Military history, Civil War, 1861-1865, Regimental histories.
United States, Pennsylvania, Military history, Civil War, 1861-1865, Regimental histories.