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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xvii, [1], 357, [1] p. Abbreviations used in Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed to Brigadier General Richard McGill by the author. Brig. Gen. Richard M. McGill was mobilization assistant to the Commander, Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He managed and directed the investigative activities of more than 425 Reserve individual mobilization augmentee special agents. The general entered the Air Force in 1967 as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. He served four years active duty with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and then separated from active duty in August 1971, joining the Air Force Office of Special Investigations Reserve individual mobilization augmentee program. He retired in 2001. From a university on-line posting: "Professor Edward J. Hagerty holds the Ph.D. from Temple University, where he worked with the eminent military historian Russell F. Weigley. Dr. Hagerty's primary interest in the field of military history is the American Civil War. His first book was Collis' Zouaves, The 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Dr. Hagerty retired from the Air Force Reserve as a colonel and special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). His second book, The Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 1948-2000, was published in 2008." n Collis' Zouaves: The 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War, military historian Edward J. Hagerty tells the story of an elite regiment that saw service with the Union Army of the Potomac in major battles of the Civil War, including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Petersburg. What made the 114th Pennsylvania unique, Hagerty explains, was its composition (it was made up largely of skilled workers and native-born Americans), its flamboyant uniforms (based on contemporary costumes worn by French North African units), and its commander, Colonel Charles Henry Tucker Collis. Collis was a Philadelphia lawyer, an abolitionist who had emigrated from Ireland in 1853 and had established a successful, politically connected practice by the time he was twenty-five. In 1863, however, Collis was charged with failing to obey orders and was court-martialed. "The controversy surrounding his battlefield conduct," stated Edward C. Snowden in his Pennsylvania History review of the book, "would continue to plague him even after his military service ended." After the war, Collis remained active in politics, often espousing causes that benefited fellow soldiers. "His bonds to his men did not end with the war," Snowden concluded. "Through his activities in the Grand Army of the Republic he championed the rights of veterans. He 'devoted much of the remainder of his life to the development of a National Park at Gettysburg.'" Hagerty also devotes much of his study to the type of men who chose to follow Colonel Collis. Many of them, stated Kevin S. Gould in H-Review, "were neither farmers nor foreigners." Instead, like their colonel, they were members of skilled trades who came into the army, not because of financial incentives, but because they believed in the cause for which they fought. Hagerty, Gould said, "shows through the Zouaves' letters that they joined either for such idealistic reasons as preserving the Union, ensuring liberty and democracy, and maintaining the American example, or out of family and professional loyalty." The author, Gould concluded, "has produced a model in military and social history." The 114th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. They were notable for their colorful Americanized version of the Zouave uniform worn in emulation of certain French light-infantry units that became world-famous during France's colonization of North Africa, the Crimean War, and the Second War of Italian Independence fought in the years prior to the American Civil War. The 114th P. Seller Inventory # 69644
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Title: Collis' Zouaves; The 114th Pennsylvania ...
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First edition. First printing [stated].
