A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee*s Army of Northern Virginia

Zack C. Waters, James C. Edmonds

ISBN 10: 0817316795 / ISBN 13: 9780817316792

Published by University Alabama Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee*s Army of Northern Virginia
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817316795
• ISBN 13: 9780817316792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

A unit that saw significant action in many of the engagements of the Civil War’s eastern theater Until this work, no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted, and problems attend the few studies of particular Florida units that have appeared. Based on more than two decades of research, Waters and Edmonds have produced a study that covers all units from Florida in the ANV, and does so in an objective and reliable fashion. Drawn from what was then a turbulent and thinly settled frontier region, the Florida troops serving in the Confederacy were never numerous, but they had the good or bad luck of finding themselves at crucial points in several significant battles such as Gettysburg where their conduct continues to be a source of contention. Additionally, the study of these units and their service permits an examination of important t

About the Author

Zack C. Waters is Adjunct Professor of history at Georgia Highlands College. He has published articles on Florida’s CSA history in Florida Historical Quarterly, Civil War Regiments, Apalachee Review, and El Escribano.

 

James C. Edmonds is self-employed in Port Royal, South Carolina.