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My brave Mechanics : the First Michigan Engineers and their Civil War
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- Creator
- Mark Hoffman ; foreword by William M. Anderson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780814332924, 0814332927
- OCLC
- ocm74987932
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-451) and index.
- Volunteer engineers -- The sinews of war -- Camp Owen -- South to Kentucky and Tennessee -- On to Corinth -- With Mitchel to the Tennessee -- Work and warfare along the Tennessee -- Into battle at Perryville -- Mutiny -- The fight at Lavergne -- Filling vacant ranks -- Forward to Murfreesboro -- Back across the Tennessee -- Holding Chattanooga for the Union -- Building the supply net -- Protecting Sherman's supply line -- Wheeler, elections, Atlanta, and a new regiment -- More men -- Atlanta and the march to the sea -- With Thomas in Tennessee -- Into the Carolinas -- Final weeks of the war -- Homeward bound -- Postwar heroes
Subjects
- United States. Army. Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)
- Military engineers -- Michigan -- History -- 19th century.
- Michigan -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Engineering and construction.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.