Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: the face of loyalty

Michèle Tucker Butts

University Press of Colorado, 2003 - History - 292 pages

Only a handful of historians have explored the unique nature of the Galvanised Yankees -- Confederate prisoners of war permitted to enlist in the Union army -- and the role they played in the West during the Civil War. Rarer still are detailed studies of individual regiments. Michèle Tucker Butts sheds welcome light on the triumphs and travails of one such unit, the First United States Volunteers and their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dimon. Their story provides a telescopic view of issues that would sweep the nation for the remainder of the nineteenth century: the promise and anxiety inherent in post-Civil War nation building, the complexities involved in westward expansion, and the changing nature of mid-nineteenth century manhood. Butts seamlessly maintains a human face on events of national import, punctuating her thoroughly researched narrative with excerpts from Dimon's letters home. This compelling account of the First United States Volunteers will appeal to both scholars and general readers interested in the Civil War as well as Western and military history.

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Much more recent then Dee Brown's book Galvanized Yankees, Butts concentrates on the 1st USV from their inspection through their mustering out, and a little beyond. The 1st was the most well ...

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve: 11
• Ardent Unionists Repentant Rebels or Prudent: 44

Bibliographic information

• Title: Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: the face of loyalty
• Author: Michèle Tucker Butts
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado, 2003
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 19, 2008
• ISBN: 0870816756, 9780870816758
• Length: 292 pages
• Subjects: History / Military / United States; History / Native American; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); Indians of North America; Indians of North America/ Wars/ 1862-1865; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / Native American; Missouri River Valley; United States; West (U.S.)