On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade - PDF free download eBook

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.".. 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...

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.".. 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 .".. 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 soldier's perspective, often in the words of the men themselves.