Earl Mulderink, III
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823243341
- eISBN:
- 9780823243389
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243341.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This book examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 1865 and on the ...
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This book examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 1865 and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans. It contributes to the growing body of Civil War studies that analyzes the “war at home” by focusing on the bustling center of the world's whaling industry in the nineteenth century. Using a broad chronological framework of the 1840s through the 1890s, the book contextualizes the rise and fall of New Bedford's whaling enterprise and details the war's multifaceted impacts between 1861 and 1865. One of its major goals is to explore the war's social history by examining how the conflict touched the city's residents—both white and black. Known before the war for both its wealth and its antislavery fervor, New Bedford offered a congenial home for a sizeable black community that experienced a “different Civil War” than did native-born whites. Drawing upon military pension files, published accounts, and welfare records, the book pays particular attention to soldiers and families connected with the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the “brave black regiment” (made famous by the Academy Award-winning 1989 film Glory) that helped shape national debates over black military enlistment, equal pay, and notions of citizenship. New Bedford's enlightened white leaders, many of them wealthy whaling merchants with Quaker roots, actively promoted the military enlistment that pulled 2,000 local citizen-soldiers into the Union ranks.Less
This book examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 1865 and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans. It contributes to the growing body of Civil War studies that analyzes the “war at home” by focusing on the bustling center of the world's whaling industry in the nineteenth century. Using a broad chronological framework of the 1840s through the 1890s, the book contextualizes the rise and fall of New Bedford's whaling enterprise and details the war's multifaceted impacts between 1861 and 1865. One of its major goals is to explore the war's social history by examining how the conflict touched the city's residents—both white and black. Known before the war for both its wealth and its antislavery fervor, New Bedford offered a congenial home for a sizeable black community that experienced a “different Civil War” than did native-born whites. Drawing upon military pension files, published accounts, and welfare records, the book pays particular attention to soldiers and families connected with the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the “brave black regiment” (made famous by the Academy Award-winning 1989 film Glory) that helped shape national debates over black military enlistment, equal pay, and notions of citizenship. New Bedford's enlightened white leaders, many of them wealthy whaling merchants with Quaker roots, actively promoted the military enlistment that pulled 2,000 local citizen-soldiers into the Union ranks.
Catriona Pennell
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199590582
- eISBN:
- 9780191738777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590582.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Military History
This chapter looks closely at the importance of volunteerism in the British experience of ‘entering’ war and, in particular, questions whether enlistment to the army was indicative of enthusiasm for ...
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This chapter looks closely at the importance of volunteerism in the British experience of ‘entering’ war and, in particular, questions whether enlistment to the army was indicative of enthusiasm for war. Without conscription, the tiny British Expeditionary Force had to be supplemented by volunteers. This raises a series of important questions—what was the chronology of recruitment? Why did men volunteer? What factors encouraged or discouraged them? How did the experience of volunteering affect women, parents, and children? What was the geography of recruitment? These questions can only be answered in the light of the themes raised in previous chapters—the national cause, the enemy, and the violence of the war as imagined and encountered.Less
This chapter looks closely at the importance of volunteerism in the British experience of ‘entering’ war and, in particular, questions whether enlistment to the army was indicative of enthusiasm for war. Without conscription, the tiny British Expeditionary Force had to be supplemented by volunteers. This raises a series of important questions—what was the chronology of recruitment? Why did men volunteer? What factors encouraged or discouraged them? How did the experience of volunteering affect women, parents, and children? What was the geography of recruitment? These questions can only be answered in the light of the themes raised in previous chapters—the national cause, the enemy, and the violence of the war as imagined and encountered.
Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199542789
- eISBN:
- 9780191741401
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542789.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Military History
Just as the officer corps was drawn from a narrow section of the upper and middle class, so the other ranks of the army continued to be drawn almost entirely from the most socially deprived elements ...
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Just as the officer corps was drawn from a narrow section of the upper and middle class, so the other ranks of the army continued to be drawn almost entirely from the most socially deprived elements of the unskilled working class. Some families had developed a military tradition but most recruits joined because they were unemployed. While the Cardwell–Childers reforms of 1868–81 were meant to introduce localized recruiting with ‘County Regiments’, this was clearly failing long before the First World War, especially in rural areas. Having joined the army, most men left it as quickly as possible and the various experiments with the length of enlistment did little to make the army more popular as a career or establish a well trained reserve.Less
Just as the officer corps was drawn from a narrow section of the upper and middle class, so the other ranks of the army continued to be drawn almost entirely from the most socially deprived elements of the unskilled working class. Some families had developed a military tradition but most recruits joined because they were unemployed. While the Cardwell–Childers reforms of 1868–81 were meant to introduce localized recruiting with ‘County Regiments’, this was clearly failing long before the First World War, especially in rural areas. Having joined the army, most men left it as quickly as possible and the various experiments with the length of enlistment did little to make the army more popular as a career or establish a well trained reserve.
Guy R. Everson and Edward H. Simpson
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195086645
- eISBN:
- 9780199853946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195086645.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina dated from October 1861 to March 1862. These letters are about their recovery from measles and their ...
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This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina dated from October 1861 to March 1862. These letters are about their recovery from measles and their transfer to the winter quarters of the Confederate Army near the Old Manassas. Since there was no attack by the enemy, the soldiers focused on keeping themselves warm at night and discussing what to do about the recently enacted legislation regarding re-enlistment.Less
This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina dated from October 1861 to March 1862. These letters are about their recovery from measles and their transfer to the winter quarters of the Confederate Army near the Old Manassas. Since there was no attack by the enemy, the soldiers focused on keeping themselves warm at night and discussing what to do about the recently enacted legislation regarding re-enlistment.
Guy R. Everson and Edward H. Simpson
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195086645
- eISBN:
- 9780199853946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195086645.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina dated from April to August 1862. These letters contained nothing specific except that Tally made the ...
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This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina dated from April to August 1862. These letters contained nothing specific except that Tally made the decision to re-enlist. Dick, who was suffering from chronic dysentery, was not able to re-enlist and decided to just let his time run out so that he could join a cavalry company being formed in the Pendleton area. However, Dick was given an honorable discharge on July 11, 1862 on account of bad health.Less
This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina dated from April to August 1862. These letters contained nothing specific except that Tally made the decision to re-enlist. Dick, who was suffering from chronic dysentery, was not able to re-enlist and decided to just let his time run out so that he could join a cavalry company being formed in the Pendleton area. However, Dick was given an honorable discharge on July 11, 1862 on account of bad health.
David French
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199246304
- eISBN:
- 9780191697562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199246304.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Military History
This chapter examines the reformation of the British Army and Home Forces during the period from 1940 to 1943. Even after the shock of the defeat in the Battle of Dunkirk, not much was done to alter ...
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This chapter examines the reformation of the British Army and Home Forces during the period from 1940 to 1943. Even after the shock of the defeat in the Battle of Dunkirk, not much was done to alter the peacetime practice of allowing senior officers to interpret doctrine as they saw fit. A major change came in the summer of 1940 when the government abandoned the policy of balancing the needs of industry and the army and enlisted 324,000 men. During the winter of 1941–42 and in 1942–43, most of the army's efforts were devoted to converting army battalions into armoured and artillery units when equipment for them became available.Less
This chapter examines the reformation of the British Army and Home Forces during the period from 1940 to 1943. Even after the shock of the defeat in the Battle of Dunkirk, not much was done to alter the peacetime practice of allowing senior officers to interpret doctrine as they saw fit. A major change came in the summer of 1940 when the government abandoned the policy of balancing the needs of industry and the army and enlisted 324,000 men. During the winter of 1941–42 and in 1942–43, most of the army's efforts were devoted to converting army battalions into armoured and artillery units when equipment for them became available.
Brian Taylor
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781469659770
- eISBN:
- 9781469659794
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659770.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political ...
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In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights, goals that had eluded earlier generations of black veterans. Some, like Frederick Douglass, urged immediate enlistment to support the cause of emancipation, hoping that a Northern victory would bring about the end of slavery. But others counseled patience and negotiation, drawing on a historical memory of unfulfilled promises for black military service in previous American wars and encouraging black men to leverage their position to demand abolition and equal citizenship. In doing this, they also began redefining what it meant to be a black man who fights for the United States. These debates over African Americans’ enlistment expose a formative moment in the development of American citizenship: black Northerners’ key demand was that military service earn full American citizenship, a term that had no precise definition prior to the Fourteenth Amendment. In articulating this demand, Taylor argues, black Northerners participated in the remaking of American citizenship itself—unquestionably one of the war’s most important results.Less
In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights, goals that had eluded earlier generations of black veterans. Some, like Frederick Douglass, urged immediate enlistment to support the cause of emancipation, hoping that a Northern victory would bring about the end of slavery. But others counseled patience and negotiation, drawing on a historical memory of unfulfilled promises for black military service in previous American wars and encouraging black men to leverage their position to demand abolition and equal citizenship. In doing this, they also began redefining what it meant to be a black man who fights for the United States. These debates over African Americans’ enlistment expose a formative moment in the development of American citizenship: black Northerners’ key demand was that military service earn full American citizenship, a term that had no precise definition prior to the Fourteenth Amendment. In articulating this demand, Taylor argues, black Northerners participated in the remaking of American citizenship itself—unquestionably one of the war’s most important results.
Brad Asher
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780813181370
- eISBN:
- 9780813151090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813181370.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
Burbridge played a major role in ending slavery in Kentucky, although his contribution has historically been understated. He implemented the Lincoln administration’s decision to enroll and enlist ...
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Burbridge played a major role in ending slavery in Kentucky, although his contribution has historically been understated. He implemented the Lincoln administration’s decision to enroll and enlist black troops, which directly attacked slavery in Kentucky since slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers. Although not an emancipationist by nature, Burbridge issued the orders that allowed black enlistment, moderated Governor Thomas Bramlette’s hostility to the plan, utilized black troops, and protected black soldiers and their families. His actions created cracks in the slave system that African Americans blew wide open by their decisions to serve as soldiers.Less
Burbridge played a major role in ending slavery in Kentucky, although his contribution has historically been understated. He implemented the Lincoln administration’s decision to enroll and enlist black troops, which directly attacked slavery in Kentucky since slaves gained their freedom by serving as soldiers. Although not an emancipationist by nature, Burbridge issued the orders that allowed black enlistment, moderated Governor Thomas Bramlette’s hostility to the plan, utilized black troops, and protected black soldiers and their families. His actions created cracks in the slave system that African Americans blew wide open by their decisions to serve as soldiers.
Earl F. Mulderink III
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823243341
- eISBN:
- 9780823243389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243341.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter focuses on volunteers who fought for New Bedford in the Civil War while representing their home, state, and country. These men were known as “citizen-soldiers,” the predominantly white ...
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This chapter focuses on volunteers who fought for New Bedford in the Civil War while representing their home, state, and country. These men were known as “citizen-soldiers,” the predominantly white military units that represented the city and state in fighting for the Union. Community identification was reinforced by military enlistment patterns as men fought with others they had known as civilians. The chapter analyzes enlistment patterns, describes military units associated with New Bedford, investigates the backgrounds of the city's soldiers, and offers a focused look at Irish and Irish-American soldiers. One such soldier was William Logan Rodman, who was commissioned major of the Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts on August 19, 1862. The chapter concludes with an assessment of mortality patterns among New Bedford's soldiers and sailors who died during the war.Less
This chapter focuses on volunteers who fought for New Bedford in the Civil War while representing their home, state, and country. These men were known as “citizen-soldiers,” the predominantly white military units that represented the city and state in fighting for the Union. Community identification was reinforced by military enlistment patterns as men fought with others they had known as civilians. The chapter analyzes enlistment patterns, describes military units associated with New Bedford, investigates the backgrounds of the city's soldiers, and offers a focused look at Irish and Irish-American soldiers. One such soldier was William Logan Rodman, who was commissioned major of the Thirty-Eighth Massachusetts on August 19, 1862. The chapter concludes with an assessment of mortality patterns among New Bedford's soldiers and sailors who died during the war.
Earl F. Mulderink III
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823243341
- eISBN:
- 9780823243389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243341.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Military History
New Bedford's enlistees in the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment would acquire fame greater than the city's white soldiers as they fought for the Union, for equal pay, and for an end to ...
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New Bedford's enlistees in the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment would acquire fame greater than the city's white soldiers as they fought for the Union, for equal pay, and for an end to slavery. This chapter focuses on black soldiers from New Bedford. These men, like other African Americans throughout the country, fought a “different Civil War” than whites as they battled against racism and for equal pay for black soldiers. New Bedford's black and white communities allied in agitating for emancipatory war aims and the full inclusion of blacks as citizens. In exploring the military recruitment and experiences of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, the chapter pays particular attention to the assault on Fort Wagner; the emergence of a local black war hero, William Carney; and the soldiers' quest for equal pay and equal rights. It also looks at black military enlistment and the New Bedford men of Company C of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts.Less
New Bedford's enlistees in the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment would acquire fame greater than the city's white soldiers as they fought for the Union, for equal pay, and for an end to slavery. This chapter focuses on black soldiers from New Bedford. These men, like other African Americans throughout the country, fought a “different Civil War” than whites as they battled against racism and for equal pay for black soldiers. New Bedford's black and white communities allied in agitating for emancipatory war aims and the full inclusion of blacks as citizens. In exploring the military recruitment and experiences of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, the chapter pays particular attention to the assault on Fort Wagner; the emergence of a local black war hero, William Carney; and the soldiers' quest for equal pay and equal rights. It also looks at black military enlistment and the New Bedford men of Company C of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts.
Chŏng Yagyong
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520260917
- eISBN:
- 9780520947702
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520260917.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This section of the book provides the English translation of six chapters in Book VIII of Mongmin simsŏ on administration for district magistrates. The chapters discuss the following: enlistment for ...
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This section of the book provides the English translation of six chapters in Book VIII of Mongmin simsŏ on administration for district magistrates. The chapters discuss the following: enlistment for military service, training soldiers, repairing weapons of war, recommending martial arts, domestic disturbances, and defending the district against enemy attack.Less
This section of the book provides the English translation of six chapters in Book VIII of Mongmin simsŏ on administration for district magistrates. The chapters discuss the following: enlistment for military service, training soldiers, repairing weapons of war, recommending martial arts, domestic disturbances, and defending the district against enemy attack.
Ian Brownlie
- Published in print:
- 1963
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198251583
- eISBN:
- 9780191681332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198251583.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
This chapter discusses the historical experience before the year 1815. The early Christian Church refused to accept war as moral in any circumstances and until A.D. 170 Christians were forbidden to ...
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This chapter discusses the historical experience before the year 1815. The early Christian Church refused to accept war as moral in any circumstances and until A.D. 170 Christians were forbidden to enlist. The most influential of the scholastics, St. Thomas Aquinas, was diffused with the teaching of St. Augustine on peace and war. The writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their reflection of changes in European society are illustrated. In addition, the probabilism and the development of the European state system and Balance of Power between 1500–1648 are explained. The positivism and the balance of power in Europe after Westphalia between 1648–1815 are also demonstrated.Less
This chapter discusses the historical experience before the year 1815. The early Christian Church refused to accept war as moral in any circumstances and until A.D. 170 Christians were forbidden to enlist. The most influential of the scholastics, St. Thomas Aquinas, was diffused with the teaching of St. Augustine on peace and war. The writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their reflection of changes in European society are illustrated. In addition, the probabilism and the development of the European state system and Balance of Power between 1500–1648 are explained. The positivism and the balance of power in Europe after Westphalia between 1648–1815 are also demonstrated.
Ian McGibbon
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781501755835
- eISBN:
- 9781501755866
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501755835.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter recounts how New Zealand's initial role in the Second World War was precipitated by Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. It discusses how New Zealand aligned itself with ...
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This chapter recounts how New Zealand's initial role in the Second World War was precipitated by Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. It discusses how New Zealand aligned itself with Britain, stating that it would go wherever it goes and stand wherever it stands, which was an acknowledgment that New Zealand's fate depended on the outcome of the British Commonwealth's war effort. It also refers to New Zealand's contribution to the Allied military effort overseas, which included supplying Britain with vital food and other resources. The chapter talks about the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), which was initially formed on the basis of voluntary enlistments in 1914. It elaborates New Zealand's need to provide for its own physical security, which introduced a new element that involved major strategic and domestic policy decisions.Less
This chapter recounts how New Zealand's initial role in the Second World War was precipitated by Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. It discusses how New Zealand aligned itself with Britain, stating that it would go wherever it goes and stand wherever it stands, which was an acknowledgment that New Zealand's fate depended on the outcome of the British Commonwealth's war effort. It also refers to New Zealand's contribution to the Allied military effort overseas, which included supplying Britain with vital food and other resources. The chapter talks about the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), which was initially formed on the basis of voluntary enlistments in 1914. It elaborates New Zealand's need to provide for its own physical security, which introduced a new element that involved major strategic and domestic policy decisions.
Walter D. Kamphoefner and Wolfgang Helbich (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807830444
- eISBN:
- 9781469605418
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807876596_kamphoefner
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives-both ...
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German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives-both on the battlefield and on the home front-during the war. This book contains a collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends and family back home. It provides a new angle to our understanding of the Civil War experience and challenges some long-held assumptions about the immigrant experience at this time. Originally published in Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three hundred letters written by seventy-eight German immigrants-men and women, soldiers and civilians, from the North and South. Their missives tell of battles and boredom, privation and profiteering, motives for enlistment and desertion and for avoiding involvement altogether. Although they are written by people with a variety of backgrounds, these letters describe the conflict from a distinctly German standpoint casting doubt on the claim that the Civil War was the great melting pot that eradicated ethnic antagonisms.Less
German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives-both on the battlefield and on the home front-during the war. This book contains a collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends and family back home. It provides a new angle to our understanding of the Civil War experience and challenges some long-held assumptions about the immigrant experience at this time. Originally published in Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three hundred letters written by seventy-eight German immigrants-men and women, soldiers and civilians, from the North and South. Their missives tell of battles and boredom, privation and profiteering, motives for enlistment and desertion and for avoiding involvement altogether. Although they are written by people with a variety of backgrounds, these letters describe the conflict from a distinctly German standpoint casting doubt on the claim that the Civil War was the great melting pot that eradicated ethnic antagonisms.
Andrew Mackillop
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474402736
- eISBN:
- 9781474422499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474402736.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
This chapter considers the way in which military service acted as an agent of mobility and a means of extending global networks. In the long eighteenth century. The so-called military economy ...
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This chapter considers the way in which military service acted as an agent of mobility and a means of extending global networks. In the long eighteenth century. The so-called military economy allowed Scots, who were over-represented in the British officer corps, to use existing regional and kinship connections to extend a form of ‘gentlemanly capitalism’. Service in the armies of the East India Company provided Scots from the emerging middle class a means for social mobility. The creation of these networks allowed Scottish localities to connect directly to the remotest areas of the British empire.Less
This chapter considers the way in which military service acted as an agent of mobility and a means of extending global networks. In the long eighteenth century. The so-called military economy allowed Scots, who were over-represented in the British officer corps, to use existing regional and kinship connections to extend a form of ‘gentlemanly capitalism’. Service in the armies of the East India Company provided Scots from the emerging middle class a means for social mobility. The creation of these networks allowed Scottish localities to connect directly to the remotest areas of the British empire.
Ian Haynes
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199655342
- eISBN:
- 9780191758300
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199655342.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
Rome’s harvesting of provincial manpower was an unprecedented achievement with extraordinary consequences. Her exploitation of the ‘human resource’ of provincial manpower was as vital to the Empire’s ...
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Rome’s harvesting of provincial manpower was an unprecedented achievement with extraordinary consequences. Her exploitation of the ‘human resource’ of provincial manpower was as vital to the Empire’s longevity as was her exploitation of other natural resources. This chapter is the first of four to examine this achievement and explores the process at its most personal — at the level of the individual. It begins by underscoring the fact that the experience of recruits to the auxilia varied considerably. To do this, it takes two case studies, the first, examines the case of a high-ranking ‘recruit’ to the Thracian auxilia in the first century; the second, the case of a draft of men enlisted in an infantry regiment in Egypt almost a century later. Legal requirements and ideal notions of how constituted a good recruit are then discussed in the context of formative Roman ideologies of power.Less
Rome’s harvesting of provincial manpower was an unprecedented achievement with extraordinary consequences. Her exploitation of the ‘human resource’ of provincial manpower was as vital to the Empire’s longevity as was her exploitation of other natural resources. This chapter is the first of four to examine this achievement and explores the process at its most personal — at the level of the individual. It begins by underscoring the fact that the experience of recruits to the auxilia varied considerably. To do this, it takes two case studies, the first, examines the case of a high-ranking ‘recruit’ to the Thracian auxilia in the first century; the second, the case of a draft of men enlisted in an infantry regiment in Egypt almost a century later. Legal requirements and ideal notions of how constituted a good recruit are then discussed in the context of formative Roman ideologies of power.
Eric M. Freedman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479870974
- eISBN:
- 9781479802470
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479870974.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
Utilizing primarily cases from the War of 1812, this Chapter illustrates the power and limitations of the writ in restraining government. Positive examples include state habeas challenges to military ...
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Utilizing primarily cases from the War of 1812, this Chapter illustrates the power and limitations of the writ in restraining government. Positive examples include state habeas challenges to military enlistments in the period prior to Tarble’s Case and Ableman v. Booth, including one decided in the Massachusetts Supreme Court against General Thomas H. Cushing, and New York Chief Justice James Kent’s order that General Morgan Lewis release alleged spy Samuel Stacy. Negative ones include the defiance of the writ by General Andrew Jackson in the period surrounding the Battle of New Orleans. Events began with the expulsion of French counsel Louis de Tousard. When Louisiana legislator Louis Louailler protested, Jackson had him arrested. Lawyer Pierre L. Morel sought habeas corpus from Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Francois-Xavier Martin (denied) and prohibition and habeas corpus from federal Judge Dominick A. Hall (latter granted). Jackson arrested Hall. When United States Attorney John Dick obtained a state habeas writ Jackson arrested Dick and ordered the judge’s arrest. Jackson was fined by Hall for contempt but ultimately reimbursed by Congress. George Washington respected the writ but it was ever vulnerable to defiance, evasion or legislative suspension. Although valuable, it could not be relied on exclusively.Less
Utilizing primarily cases from the War of 1812, this Chapter illustrates the power and limitations of the writ in restraining government. Positive examples include state habeas challenges to military enlistments in the period prior to Tarble’s Case and Ableman v. Booth, including one decided in the Massachusetts Supreme Court against General Thomas H. Cushing, and New York Chief Justice James Kent’s order that General Morgan Lewis release alleged spy Samuel Stacy. Negative ones include the defiance of the writ by General Andrew Jackson in the period surrounding the Battle of New Orleans. Events began with the expulsion of French counsel Louis de Tousard. When Louisiana legislator Louis Louailler protested, Jackson had him arrested. Lawyer Pierre L. Morel sought habeas corpus from Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Francois-Xavier Martin (denied) and prohibition and habeas corpus from federal Judge Dominick A. Hall (latter granted). Jackson arrested Hall. When United States Attorney John Dick obtained a state habeas writ Jackson arrested Dick and ordered the judge’s arrest. Jackson was fined by Hall for contempt but ultimately reimbursed by Congress. George Washington respected the writ but it was ever vulnerable to defiance, evasion or legislative suspension. Although valuable, it could not be relied on exclusively.
Christian McWhirter
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835500
- eISBN:
- 9781469601861
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807882627_mcwhirter.10
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter discusses the introduction of African American music to white audiences during the Civil War. Minstrelsy, one of the most popular genres of American music, was specifically designed to ...
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This chapter discusses the introduction of African American music to white audiences during the Civil War. Minstrelsy, one of the most popular genres of American music, was specifically designed to portray slave life. As the southern slave system collapsed, minstrel music changed. In the North, minstrel performers and songwriters supported emancipation and black enlistment.Less
This chapter discusses the introduction of African American music to white audiences during the Civil War. Minstrelsy, one of the most popular genres of American music, was specifically designed to portray slave life. As the southern slave system collapsed, minstrel music changed. In the North, minstrel performers and songwriters supported emancipation and black enlistment.
Alice Fahs
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807825815
- eISBN:
- 9781469604268
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807899298_fahs.8
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter focuses on stories and vignettes on the role of women in the war effort. Articles, illustrations, and stories emphasized the importance of women's domestic labor for the war effort, ...
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This chapter focuses on stories and vignettes on the role of women in the war effort. Articles, illustrations, and stories emphasized the importance of women's domestic labor for the war effort, whether in preparing and packing provisions, sewing uniforms and havelocks, or knitting socks and mittens for soldiers. Other writings stressed the central importance of women in supporting men's enlistment, at times explicitly drawing parallels to the actions of Revolutionary mothers.Less
This chapter focuses on stories and vignettes on the role of women in the war effort. Articles, illustrations, and stories emphasized the importance of women's domestic labor for the war effort, whether in preparing and packing provisions, sewing uniforms and havelocks, or knitting socks and mittens for soldiers. Other writings stressed the central importance of women in supporting men's enlistment, at times explicitly drawing parallels to the actions of Revolutionary mothers.
Robert E. Lerner
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691183022
- eISBN:
- 9781400882922
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691183022.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter details Kantorowicz' life in the army with the outbreak of World War I. Kantorowicz enlisted in August 14, 1914. His speed in enlisting was typical. Tens of thousands of young German ...
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This chapter details Kantorowicz' life in the army with the outbreak of World War I. Kantorowicz enlisted in August 14, 1914. His speed in enlisting was typical. Tens of thousands of young German men, including Jews, stormed the recruiting stations. On September 17, Kantorowicz was sent to join his regiment on the western front. He received successive promotions. He entered the army as a private (Soldat) and moved up by steps from private first class, to corporal, to sergeant (Vizewachtmeister), a noncommissioned officer rank he attained in October 1915. In June 1915 he received the Iron Cross, second class. On July 5, 1916, he joined a field artillery regiment that was in the midst of the battle of Verdun.Less
This chapter details Kantorowicz' life in the army with the outbreak of World War I. Kantorowicz enlisted in August 14, 1914. His speed in enlisting was typical. Tens of thousands of young German men, including Jews, stormed the recruiting stations. On September 17, Kantorowicz was sent to join his regiment on the western front. He received successive promotions. He entered the army as a private (Soldat) and moved up by steps from private first class, to corporal, to sergeant (Vizewachtmeister), a noncommissioned officer rank he attained in October 1915. In June 1915 he received the Iron Cross, second class. On July 5, 1916, he joined a field artillery regiment that was in the midst of the battle of Verdun.
