tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post346280943741693496..comments2024-03-25T14:51:02.583-07:00Comments on Civil War Books and Authors: Review - "Not Till Then Can the World Know: Replacement Companies of the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry in the Trans-Mississippi" by L. Spencer Busch, ed.DW@CWBAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00018056113264346047noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-55670313264607835422020-05-31T07:37:47.032-07:002020-05-31T07:37:47.032-07:00No, the book doesn't address that topic.No, the book doesn't address that topic.DW@CWBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00018056113264346047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-27474627991587793992020-05-31T07:23:31.180-07:002020-05-31T07:23:31.180-07:00Does the author elaborate much on the relationship...Does the author elaborate much on the relationship between the replacement companies and the veterans in the regiment? It wasn't entirely unusual to herd replacements into a single company or two (though rarely did most Iowa regiments receive enough to fill an entire company, let alone three), but I'm interested in how the author's sources may have potentially spoken to the social Eric Michael Burkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07959624173756264055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-16071342028067894692020-05-27T15:34:10.343-07:002020-05-27T15:34:10.343-07:00Given how difficult it was to fill the ranks of th...Given how difficult it was to fill the ranks of the 14th Iowa replacement companies (according to the author, Spawr's Company C was mustered in at barely over half regulation strength), I wonder if the promise was an exceptional enlistment concession born out of desperation.DW@CWBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00018056113264346047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16471073.post-40677555909258386772020-05-27T13:07:37.783-07:002020-05-27T13:07:37.783-07:00It's interesting to hear that the replacement ...It's interesting to hear that the replacement companies were allowed to muster out with the veterans in 1864. Later enlisters in New York regiments were usually not so fortunate, and it caused lots of controversy.Will Hickoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01119463723965153883noreply@blogger.com