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Tarnished Eagles Thomas P Lowry William C Davis 9780811715973 Books Reviews

Just read today that the National Archives have discovered that Mr. Lowry changed an Abraham Lincoln document to make it look like that the last thing Lincoln did on 14 April 1865 (the day of his death) was pardon a soldier. Mr. Lowry told the Archives that he did it to essentially make himself important because he was the doscoverer of this amazing document. The statute of limitations have passed and Mr. Lowry will not be charged for desicrating and national document; however, this now puts everything Mr. Lowry has written under a microscope of suspicion. Now his work needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It's really sad when someonne sabotages themselves for a little bit of recognition.
Dr. Lowry has added some color to the realm of Civil War History with his two books, Sex in the Civil War, and Tarnished Eagles. Lowry does a great job in picking out the interesting cases that also represent a good cross section of Civil War Justice. I heartily enjoyed this work. I'm not too sure of just how scholarly this is, but it certainly makes the soldiers appear much more human.
Certainly this was an interesting mix of stories, which would doubtless be fascinating to Civil War buffs. I enjoyed it, but I liked the later Tarnished Scalpels better because in that book, Mr. Lowry included his own opinions in a paragraph or two at the end of each case account. He didn't do that in this one. But they are both good books and can be read together, or separately. You don't have to be a Civil War buff to enjoy Lowry's work.
Union Col. Newton Lord, in demanding "A brandy for my horse", while in a saloon(and in the saddle as well)sets a high standard for shameful and hilarious buffoonery in uniform.

Once again, author Thomas Lowry takes readers on a dizzing ride of strange and amusing tales from civil war court records. The war between the states was a large conflict requiring the sevices of millions of troops and thousands of officers--and with only a handfull experienced soldiers availible at the beginning of the war, the opprotunity presented itself for any gentleman of means to start his own regiment.

I recommend this read most highly for anyone who has served under an eccentric leader, or laughed at Shakespeares' Falstaff,or George Frasers' Col. Flashman. Perhaps those fictional clowns were based on the sort of real-life poltroons that every army seems to have.

Lowry joins a great fraternity of those who show that history is funny as well true.
Far too many writers addressing the Civil War are guilty of childish romanticism. While that tremendous conflict certainly had its noble heroes and ample demonstrations of courage and self-sacrifice, any war--or human crisis of any sort--has its cowards and fools, its liars, thieves and rogues. This fine, factual book serves as a much-needed (and highly readable) balance to pulp fiction and pulp history heroics. It tells the stories of some of the officers who went wrong, either from deficiency of character or circumstance. In doing so, it enriches our understanding and visceral sense of the Civil War in ways that the next dozen adulatory biographies of mediocre generals will not. While I am a long-time fan of co-author William C. Davis, Dr. Lowry deserves special praise for his continuing literary efforts to describe the dramas and tragedies around, between and, sometimes, in the great battles. As a former soldier who served a full career, I can guarantee any reader that this book shows soldiers as more than a few of them really are--not gallantly charging the enemy, but energetically looking after themselves. While this book concentrates on some of the darker aspects of the war, those aspects are exactly the ones that are lacking in too much of what passes as history or historical literature. I would also recommend any of Lowry's or Davis's other superb Civil War books.
Without intending to, I have ended up with more books in my civil war collection by Dr. Lowry than by anyone else but August Kautz. Lowry writes wittily and well about interesting and important aspects of the war and, in so doing, gives us insights and details available from few other authors.

As a reader with a special interest in the administrative aspects of the war, I found Tarnished Eagles highly useful indeed. This study of the courts-martial of fifty colonels in the Union army offers a vivid illustration of the array of mishaps, misdeeds, and general malfeasance that can spring from an army created virtually overnight of amateurs at all levels. The varied cases document insubordination before superiors, oppression of inferiors, infighting among peers, misunderstanding or ignorance of standing orders and the Articles of War, and other ways that regimental commanders, stepping up to the plate of military responsibility, slipped and fell on their faces. One of my favorite cases concerns Colonel Riker of the 62nd New York. Though charged with neglect of duty, attempting to sell a commission, and other offenses, most of the testimony at his trial centered on the enlistment of "Walter Harold," who turned out to be a woman named Helen Lambert. While a few witnesses knew "Walter" was a woman, another testified that "We have a hundred boys in the regiment who would be taken for a girl as soon as he" - a view of the actual appearance of civil war soldiers that one would obtain from very few of today's reenactments. But as if to remind us of the ultimate test of any officer, we read that Colonel Riker was mortally wounded only weeks after being acquitted of all charges. For a view of daily life in a civil war regiment that you'll not likely get from any of the standard battle or unit histories, I can recommend no better book than this of Dr. Lowry's.

On a side note, several other reviewers have given Dr. Lowry's works the lowest possible rating. In glancing at their comments I see that this has far less to do with Lowry's research and writing than with an incident in early 2011 in which he was accused of altering a document in the National Archives. It's worth noting that Lowry was never tried for this offense, that he immediately disavowed the "confession" that agents of NARA's Inspector General obtained from him under duress, and that countless employees of that organization had far more access and means to perpetrate such a crime.

I think it only just to give him the benefit of the doubt. Further, there can be no doubt that these accusations cannot detract from the excellent historical work that he has done and shared with his readers.
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