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While large armies engaged in epic battles in the eastern theater of the Civil War, a largely unchronicled story was unfolding along the Mississippi River. Thirty "Special Scouts" under the command of Lieutenant Isaac Newton Earl patrolled the river, gathering information about Confederate troop activity, arresting Rebel smugglers and guerillas, and opposing anti-Union insurrection. Gordon Olson gives this special unit full book-length treatment for the first time in The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts. Olson uses new research in assembling his detailed yet very readable account of Earl, a dynamic leader who rose quickly through Union Army ranks to command this elite group. He himself was captured by the Confederates three times and escaped three times, and he developed a strategic -- and later romantic -- relationship with a Southern woman, Jane O'Neal, who became one of his spies. In keeping the river open for Union Army movement of men and supplies to New Orleans, Earl's Scouts played an important, heretofore unheralded, role in the Union's war effort.… (altro)
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“On arriving in camp we heard of the daring and successful exploit of the notorious Earl. . . . This was characteristic of the man. He courts danger for the sport of the thing, and he is eminently successful, that is the beauty of the thing.”
— L. C. Bartlett, a member of the 4th Wisconsin, in a letter to the Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, Evergreen City Times, November 12, 1864
1864 Statement recommending Lieutenant Isaac N. Earl for brevet promotion to major:
“With small parties of 25 to 30 men he has penetrated the enemy’s country in almost every direction, has gained information of incalculable importance, made captures of rebel officers of high rank, of mails, dispatches, flags, horses, mules, boats, supplies of all kinds, and large quantities of cotton. The money values of his captures will far exceed half a million dollars, but the real value of some of the captures, and of the information gained by him, cannot be estimated in money.
“He is a young man of strict moral habits, modest, brave, as kind to a prisoner as he is fierce when engaged in battle, and as true to the Union and the laws of honor as man can be. I know of no one whom I can [more] heartily recommend to the favorable consideration of the President.”
— Major General E. R. S. Canby
Commander, Federal Military Division of West Mississippi
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who taught their children to love reading and value books
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(Prologue) Through a moonless September 1864 night, the steamboat Ida May, its lights doused and windows covered, slid quietly down the Mississippi River, past sandbars and floating debris, as its captain carefully navigated the broad river's ever-changing channels.
(Chapter 1) Isaac Earl's short but extraordinary life as a soldier — “a military career of which movies are made,” one writer called it — began modestly enough when he joined neighbors and friends in central Wisconsin to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers after the Confederate bombardment and seizure of Fort Sumter.
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They were citizen-soldiers in the fullest sense of the term.
While large armies engaged in epic battles in the eastern theater of the Civil War, a largely unchronicled story was unfolding along the Mississippi River. Thirty "Special Scouts" under the command of Lieutenant Isaac Newton Earl patrolled the river, gathering information about Confederate troop activity, arresting Rebel smugglers and guerillas, and opposing anti-Union insurrection. Gordon Olson gives this special unit full book-length treatment for the first time in The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts. Olson uses new research in assembling his detailed yet very readable account of Earl, a dynamic leader who rose quickly through Union Army ranks to command this elite group. He himself was captured by the Confederates three times and escaped three times, and he developed a strategic -- and later romantic -- relationship with a Southern woman, Jane O'Neal, who became one of his spies. In keeping the river open for Union Army movement of men and supplies to New Orleans, Earl's Scouts played an important, heretofore unheralded, role in the Union's war effort.
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