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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1951
Género
male
Educación
Harvard University
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. School of Law
Organizaciones
Massachusetts Historical Society
Biografía breve
Richard F. Miller is an independent scholar. He is the author of A Carrier at War: on Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War (2005) and co-author (with Robert F. Mooney) of The Civil War: the Nantucket Experience (1994). Miller has written about the Massachusetts gentlemen of the Harvard Regiment in Historical Journal Of Massachusetts (2002) and the New England Quarterly (2002 and 2003), and has written on numerous other Civil War-related topics. A Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Miller is a graduate of Harvard and Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

-- from the jacket of Harvard's Civil War (2005)

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This is a vivid regimental history of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Harvard Regiment owing to the number of officers associated with the college. The history covers not only the military campaigns, but also the class conflicts and political wrangling associated with its creation and continuance. Many of the elite felt that only "gentlemen" could serve as satisfactory officers, but the casualty rate made this impractical, and some argued that lower class members of the ranks should be able to advance on merit. There were also bitter conflicts about abolition.

The book includes a number of interesting and moving anecdotes about individual members of the regiment. There is a gallery of portraits. The cost of war becomes appalling clear, as does the dedication of the soldiers to their country.
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Obras
6
Miembros
64
Popularidad
#264,968
Valoración
½ 3.6
Reseñas
1
ISBNs
20

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