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THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS
IN THE CIVIL WAR:
THE SECOND
YEAR
David M. Sullivan
NEW, still in shrinkwrap. Hardcover in dust
jacket. 6.5" x 9.5" White Mane Publishing Company, 1997. First
Edition. Photographs, maps, period etchings, tables, extensive
notes, bibliography, index, 373 pages. “In this second of
David Sullivan’s magisterial series on the history of the United
States Marines, the Marines come into direct battle with the
Confederate States Marines at Drewry’s Bluff, May 15, 1862.
There Corporal John Mackie earned the first Medal of Honor
awarded to an enlisted United States Marine. In this second
year of the war, the Marines fought everywhere the Navy did,
especially in the Union’s year-long struggle to gain control
of the Mississippi River and Confederacy’s coasts. Bringing
the personalities of the Corps to life, Sullivan includes
such episodes as when Captain John L. Broome’s two hundred
Marines occupied New Orleans briefly until the Army relieved him.
Sullivan, continuing in the tradition of his first work, also
shows the everyday life of the Leathernecks at sea and on shore.
During 1862, the United States Marine Band began its rise to
reeminence. The author also uses his immense research into
unpublished sources concerning Lieutenant Colonel John G.
Reynolds’ court-martial to end the legend than an internecine
struggle within the Corps’ senior ranks was responsible for
the Corps not taking an even more active role in the Civil War.
$40.00
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