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Scraping the Barrel
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NotesIntroductionSanders Marble1. Warren Treadgold, Byzantium and Its Army (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995), 11, citing Codex Theodosianus 7.22.8. Clyde Pharr’s translation The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions (Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2001), 184, gives slightly different details than Treadgold’s.2. “Army Recruiting Remains on Track Despite Challenges,” http://www.2010military.com/military-news-story.cfm?textnewsid=2718. Accessed June 4, 2010.3. Susan Birch, ed., Encyclopedia of American Disability History(New York: Facts On File, 2009).4. The U.S. Army Military History Institute had fourteen bibliographies about blacks and thirteen about women and the military available on June 4, 2010. Books on elites look both at high-ranking and privileged elites and elite units; examples are Roger Beaumont, Military Elites(London: R. Hale, 1976); and A. Hamish Ion and Keith Neilson, eds., Elite Military Formations in War and Peace (New York: Praeger, 1996). 1. Federal Manpower Needs and the U.S. ArmyÕs Veteran Reserve CorpsPaul A. Cimbala1. General Orders, no. 105, April 28, 1863, Adjutant General’s Offi ce, War Department, Library, United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Penn. Hereinafter cited as GO with number and AGO, USAMHI.2. Washington (D.C.) Daily National Intelligencer, December 15, 1863; also see Col. R. H. Rush to P. R. Freas (Germantown, Penn., Telegraph), July 3, 1863, Letters Sent (LS), vol. 1, Veteran Reserve Corps, Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Offi ce, Record Group 110, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Hereinafter cited as VRC, RG 110.Marble-Notes.indd277Marble-Notes.indd 2776/6/20124:39:12PM6/6/2012 4:39:12 PM
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NotesIntroductionSanders Marble1. Warren Treadgold, Byzantium and Its Army (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995), 11, citing Codex Theodosianus 7.22.8. Clyde Pharr’s translation The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions (Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2001), 184, gives slightly different details than Treadgold’s.2. “Army Recruiting Remains on Track Despite Challenges,” http://www.2010military.com/military-news-story.cfm?textnewsid=2718. Accessed June 4, 2010.3. Susan Birch, ed., Encyclopedia of American Disability History(New York: Facts On File, 2009).4. The U.S. Army Military History Institute had fourteen bibliographies about blacks and thirteen about women and the military available on June 4, 2010. Books on elites look both at high-ranking and privileged elites and elite units; examples are Roger Beaumont, Military Elites(London: R. Hale, 1976); and A. Hamish Ion and Keith Neilson, eds., Elite Military Formations in War and Peace (New York: Praeger, 1996). 1. Federal Manpower Needs and the U.S. ArmyÕs Veteran Reserve CorpsPaul A. Cimbala1. General Orders, no. 105, April 28, 1863, Adjutant General’s Offi ce, War Department, Library, United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Penn. Hereinafter cited as GO with number and AGO, USAMHI.2. Washington (D.C.) Daily National Intelligencer, December 15, 1863; also see Col. R. H. Rush to P. R. Freas (Germantown, Penn., Telegraph), July 3, 1863, Letters Sent (LS), vol. 1, Veteran Reserve Corps, Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Offi ce, Record Group 110, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Hereinafter cited as VRC, RG 110.Marble-Notes.indd277Marble-Notes.indd 2776/6/20124:39:12PM6/6/2012 4:39:12 PM
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. 1 Federal Manpower Needs and the U.S. Army's Veteran Reserve Corps 5
  5. 2 A Grand Illusion? German Reserves, 1815-1914 28
  6. 3 Manifestly Inferior? French Reserves, 1871-1914 54
  7. 4 Each One a Pocket Hercules: The Bantam Experiment and the Case of the Thirty-fifth Division 79
  8. 5 Scraping the Barrel: African American Troops and World War I 105
  9. 6 Below the Bar: The U.S. Army and Limited Service Manpower 132
  10. 7 Soviet Use of Substandard Manpower in the Red Army, 1941-1945 151
  11. 8 German Bodenstandig Divisions 179
  12. 9 Recruiting Volksdeutsche for the Waffen-SS: From Skimming the Cream to Scraping the Dregs 197
  13. 10 The Ethnic Germans of the Waffen-SS in Combat: Dregs or Gems? 225
  14. 11 Project 100,000 in the Vietnam War and Afterward 254
  15. Conclusions 271
  16. Notes 277
  17. Contributors 349
  18. Index 353
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. 1 Federal Manpower Needs and the U.S. Army's Veteran Reserve Corps 5
  5. 2 A Grand Illusion? German Reserves, 1815-1914 28
  6. 3 Manifestly Inferior? French Reserves, 1871-1914 54
  7. 4 Each One a Pocket Hercules: The Bantam Experiment and the Case of the Thirty-fifth Division 79
  8. 5 Scraping the Barrel: African American Troops and World War I 105
  9. 6 Below the Bar: The U.S. Army and Limited Service Manpower 132
  10. 7 Soviet Use of Substandard Manpower in the Red Army, 1941-1945 151
  11. 8 German Bodenstandig Divisions 179
  12. 9 Recruiting Volksdeutsche for the Waffen-SS: From Skimming the Cream to Scraping the Dregs 197
  13. 10 The Ethnic Germans of the Waffen-SS in Combat: Dregs or Gems? 225
  14. 11 Project 100,000 in the Vietnam War and Afterward 254
  15. Conclusions 271
  16. Notes 277
  17. Contributors 349
  18. Index 353
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