{"product_id":"late-to-the-fight-union-soldier-combat-performance-from-the-wilderness-to-the-fall-of-petersburg-hardback-9780807183830","title":"Late to the Fight; Union Soldier Combat Performance from the Wilderness to the Fall of Petersburg (Hardback) 9780807183830","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLate to the Fight\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eUnion Soldier Combat Performance from the Wilderness to the Fall of Petersburg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlexandre F. Caillot (Author), T. Michael Parrish (Series edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807183830\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e310 pages, 13 halftones; 10 maps\u003cbr\u003e2.1 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a deft combination of social and operational military history, Caillot defies some of the Civil War's most enduring stereotypes. Usefully shifting our focus from why men fought to how they performed under fire, he recovers a remarkable tale of two federal regiments surmounting seemingly unthinkable challenges during the conflict's most punishing campaigns. Caillot scrubs the tarnish from the reputation of the Union's late-war enlistees. Methodologically rich and carefully argued, this is that rare book that challenges readers to rethink their conclusions—​as well as their questions.\" - Brian Matthew Jordan, Pulitzer Prize finalist for \u003ci\u003eMarching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With great attention to detail and a focused effort to resurrect the story of two Union regiments raised for service late in the Civil War, Caillot has offered us a new take on an old subject. Late war men and the units they created deserve respect as effective military men and organizations, Caillot convincingly argues, as he deploys personal accounts, statistical analysis, and official reports to support this important study of late war men on campaign and in battle.\" - Earl J. Hess, author of \u003ci\u003eCivil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A splendid read. Caillot's insightful small-unit analysis succeeds in refuting the 'unsoldierly' reputation of those men who joined the Union army late in the war. Despite the mistrust of their veteran comrades, these soldiers bravely endured the test of combat in the final year of the war in the East.\" - Steven E. Sodergren, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864–1865\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLate to the Fight,\u003c\/i\u003e Alexandre F. Caillot explores the combat performance of the Union soldiers who filled newly raised regiments that fought through the Civil War's final year. Historians have typically regarded these late enlistees as substandard to those who signed on at the war's start. Using the experiences of the 17th Vermont and 31st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiments to assess the record of late-arriving soldiers under fire, Caillot shows that these forgotten boys in blue left behind a record of valor and sacrifice essential to achieving the destruction of the Confederacy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681235366168,"sku":"9780807183830","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/late-to-the-fight-union-soldier-combat-performance-from-the-wilderness-to-the-fall-of-petersburg-hardback-9780807183830","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}