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On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade

On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade

Gaff, Alan D.

Paperback

Series: Great Lakes Connections: The Civil War

Civil War Period (1850-1877)General Military History

ISBN10: 0253212944
ISBN13: 9780253212948
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Feb 1 1999
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.34 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

. . . an excellent unit history of a renowned regiment . . . --The Civil War News

. . . American history on a human scale . . . --Kirkus Reviews

The author gives some of the best descriptions of the daily life of a Civil War soldier that can be found anywhere. --Library Journal

On Many a Bloody Field is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship and painstaking historical research. --The Bookwatch

. . . meticulously researched, day-by-day history of Company B, 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment. . . . [T]he real essence of this book is its detailed attention to the common soldiers. . . . [A]s a representative of its genre, it probably is without many peers. --Journal of Southern History

On Many a Bloody Field follows one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations--Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade, in a vivid account of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Alan Gaff follows the men from recruitment through mustering out, from the tedium of camp to the excitement of battle. A close-up view of the experience of war, told from the soldiers' perspective, often in the words of the men themselves.

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