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California Sabers
Author | : Mclean |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2000-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253337863 |
"California Sabers is the story of the California Hundred and Battalion, the only organized group of Californians to fight in the East during the Civil War. The 500 select men volunteered their enlistment bounty to pay their passage across Panama and on to Massachusetts, where they became the cadre of the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry"-- Book jacket, front flap.
Californio Lancers
Author | : Tom Prezelski |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2015-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806153091 |
More than 16,000 Californians served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. One California unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from the “Cow Counties” of Southern California and the Central Coast. Out-of-work vaqueros who enlisted after drought decimated the herds they worked, the Native Cavalrymen lent the army their legendary horsemanship and carried lances that evoked both the romance of the Californios and the Spanish military tradition. Californio Lancers, the first detailed history of the 1st Battalion, illuminates their role in the conflict and brings new diversity to Civil War history. Author Tom Prezelski notes that the Californios, less than a generation removed from the U.S.-Mexican War, were ambivalent about serving in the Union Army, but poverty trumped their misgivings. Based on his extensive research in the service records of individual officers and enlisted men, Prezelski describes both the problems and the accomplishments of the 1st Battalion. Despite a desertion rate among enlisted men that exceeded 50 percent for some companies, and despite the feuds among its officers, the Native Cavalry was the face of federal authority in the region, and their presence helped retain the West for the Union during the rebellion. The battalion pursued bandits, fought an Indian insurrection in northern California, garrisoned Confederate-leaning southern California, patrolled desert trails, guarded the border, and attempted to control the Chiricahua Apaches in southern Arizona. Although some ten thousand Spanish-surnamed Americans served during the Civil War, their support of the Union is almost unknown in the popular imagination. Californio Lancers contributes to our understanding of the Civil War in the Far West and how it transformed the Mexican-American community.
Bear Flag and Bay State in the Civil War
Author | : Thomas E. Parson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786450602 |
The Second Massachusetts Cavalry included the only organized group (5 companies totaling 504 men) from California to fight in the east during the Civil War. Led by a young Boston aristocrat, Colonel Charles R. Lowell, these men began their wartime careers in Northern Virginia in 1862, clashing with the partisan rangers of Major John S. Mosby, in a deadly world of guerrilla warfare. In August of 1864, the regiment was assigned to Major General Phil Sheridan’s Army of Shenandoah and served through all of the battles in the victorious campaign to clear the valley of Confederates, witnessing the final surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. This account tells what these men from California and Massachusetts accomplished, how they communicated, and how they viewed themselves. The book contains three appendices that list the battle casualties of the regiment during its largest engagements. Photographs and a bibliography are also included.
California National Guard's 150th Anniversary
Author | : California. National Guard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
History of California Civil War Regiments: Cavalry and Infantry
Author | : Christopher Cox |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2013-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1304469689 |
This book has information of all CaliforniaCivil War Regiment. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the California Regiments all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.
California Cavalry
Author | : Jennifer A. Garey |
Publisher | : Arcadia Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2014-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781531675820 |
California was home to the one of the first Native American cavalries and one of the first African American cavalries, commonly known as the Buffalo Soldiers. It was in California where the country saw the last official military cavalry in operation. California Cavalry displays the history of cavalry battalions and regiments, detailing a critical and controversial period and the eventual change from horse to mechanized technology. This book attempts to approach the topic of the cavalry in California both from indigenous and from military perspectives. Geographic regions are expanded beyond California to give context and continuity to the movement of military operations.
The Golden State in the Civil War
Author | : Glenna Matthews |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2012-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521194008 |
Breaks new ground in its coverage of California during the Civil War era, in terms of geography and social groupings.