| Author/Contributor(s): | Gaff |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Date: | 02/22/1999 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
. . . 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.