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...Sergei Zimovets Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Sergei Zimovets Son of the Regiment: Deus ex Machina The boy slept. From one moment to the next, the expression on his face would change. At times it would be frozen in horror, or an inhuman despair would distort it; or the sharp...

...Jay Luvaas “CO. AYTCH” Maury Gray’s First Tennessee Regiment: or A Side Show of the Big Show . By Watkins Sam R. . With an Introduction by Wiley Bell Irvin . Jackson, Tennessee : McCowat-Mercer Press , 1952 . Pp. 231 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953...

...Theodore Ropp The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War . By Pullen John J. . Philadelphia and New York : J. B. Lippincott Company , 1957 . Pp. x , 338 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 136 The South Atlantic Quarterly controlled...

...Balcomb Greene Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 The Art of Regimentation Balcomb Greene Part of the richness of our thinking comes from juggling scientific, social, and aesthetic similarities or differences. I have two paint­ ings four feet square; they are similar. But I like...

... at Halifax, where all the continentals were instructed to concentrate. In order to move with all possible expedition, the General Assembly, April 18, 1777, ordered the troops going north to march in divisions, companies, and parts of companies without attending to regimental order. On the same day...

... and with a greater wisdom than our federal government showed in the civil war she filled up her old regiments when more soldiers were needed rather than raised new regiments. It was my honor and pleasure to edit for publication in the Maryland Archives last year, a volume entitled the Muster Rolls and other records...

... soldiers and local authorities. Representative Nicholls was sufficiently worried to query the War Department. Early in August he wired home the reassuring news: Negro regiments will not be sent to Spartanburg. 10 1S1omething of that assurance evapo­ rated when word came that Camp Jackson, in the capital...

... that the society had originated with the enemy and had entered the Southern army at Cumberland Gap.t In regard to the discontent among the soldiers, Colonel Swanson of the 59th and 61st§ Alabama regiment (consolidated) stated that there was a general disposition on the part of the poorer classes, substi­ tutes...

... in the Revolution. 319 of employing a military force for its defence against foreign and domestic invasion. On the first of September it was ordered that a thousand regulars be raised for the continental line, to be divided into two regiments of five hundred each under the com­ mand of Colonels Janies Moore...

... in winning partial support from the Central Asians was remarkable. With this reservation, the reviewer welcomes this monograph as a valuable contribution to Soviet history. john shelton curtiss The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War. By John J. Pullen. Philadelphia and New York: J. B...

... contribute enough to national security to justify the expenditure required? In a consideration of military training it is well to remember that in vigorous infantry combat there is no such thing so far as com­ ponent individuals are concerned as a veteran outfit. The men of the 134th Infantry Regiment...

... in modern form, and there have been few attempts to study either the men who wrought the change or the exact way in which it developed out of our old, traditional Indian-fighting regiments. Since this is not a critical account, what is most significant in it must be read between the lines, but the mere...

... of knowing, as I graduated and left the Institute in July, 1849, and did not see him again until the war. In April, 1861, I was stationed at Harper s Ferry as adjutant of the Second Virginia Infantry, a crack regiment. We were quartered in the buildings in the armory yard and used the grounds for drill...

... companies joined Thomas s force, and on September 27, 1862, they were organized into the Sixty-Ninth North Carolina Regiment, with him as colonel. Soon they became known as Thomas s Legion of Indians and Highlanders, or simply Thomas s Legion. The 2,083 men were divided into eleven companies of infantry...

... raised a company of mountaineers from the wild region at the junction of the states of Tennessee, Georgia and Ala­ bama. They promptly called themselves the Raccoons Roughs and became a company of the Sixth Alabama Regiment. Gor­ don soon became colonel of the regiment and forged it into a fighting...

... but unco-ordinated efforts to organize for war. Chesney notes the attempt to continue business as usual, the rising pay for workers ten shillings a day for anybody who could drive a rivet with the pittance for soldiers, and the lack of military equipment for hastily organized regiments. An effort...

... to the survival of the Pinochet regime. The same horrors and humiliations were repeated in every corner of this land, in a cellar in the far north and in an attic in the extreme south, identical mock executions carried out in regiment after regiment, the same recurring methods to extract a confession...

... should be a beauty. In the fall of 1862, Grant, then fairly embarked on the Vicksburg campaign, built up a huge supply depot at this Mississippi town on the Mississippi Central Railroad. The place was protected, inadequately, by a single Wis­ consin regiment commanded by an officer who was both coward...

... book that clarifies many phases of Soviet life. JOHN shelton curtiss CO. AYTCH Maury Gray s First Tennessee Regiment: or A Side Show of the Big Show. By Sam R. Watkins. With an Intro­ duction by Bell Irvin Wiley. Jackson, Tennessee: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1952. Pp. 231. $5.00. One of the most graphic...

... and Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958. Pp. xxxvi, 392. $7.50. The journal of Baron von Closen is a sharp reminder that regiments of professional German soldiers fought against George III in the American Revolution as well as for him. Closen, descended from a distinguished Rhenish...