Seldom does one encounter a history of a military unit that so compellingly reproduces its experiences.--New York Times "An unusually detailed study of men at w

A narrative of the day-to-day existence of a single Federal regiment in the final year of the Civil war. With extensive passages from the diaries and letters of

The 57th Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers lost more men killed and mortally wounded than any other regiment in the Union army. In this classic Civil War unit hi

The previously unpublished record of a white doctor's service with African American troops during the Civil War

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