Harvard's Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

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"The Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was one of the most influential northern units in the Army of the Potomac. Its nickname, the Harvard Regiment, was derived from the preponderance of Crimson-connected officers on its roster. The fortunes of war placed this unit at the lethal crossroads of nearly every major battle of the Army of the Potomac from Ball's Bluff (1861) through Grant's Overland Campaign. After receiving its baptismal fire at the debacle of Ball's Bluff, the Harvard Regiment was the first to plant its colors on the Confederate works at Yorktown; fought McClellan's rear guard actions during the Seven Days' Campaign; was mauled in Antietam's West Woods, on Fredericksburg's streets, and on Marye's Heights; faced Pickett's charge at Gettysburg; and was at the deadly intersection of the Orange and Plank roads at the battle of the Wilderness." "But the regiment's influence far transcended its battle itinerary. Its officers were drawn from elite circles of New England politics, literature, and commerce. This was the regiment of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.; of his cousins, William Lowell Putnam and James Jackson Lowell, both nephews of James Russell Lowell and whose mothers were distinguished authors; of Paul Joseph Revere and his brother Edward H. R. Revere, both grandsons of Paul Revere; and of Sumner Paine, great-grandson of Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine." Because its officer corps was highly educated, many of the Harvard Regiment left copious collections of diaries, memoirs, and letters, many published. Yet the history of the Twentieth Massachusetts comprises a social document beyond the evocative and tragic recollections of its highly literate leadership. Although the Boston elite dominated the regiment's officer crops, half of its recruits were immigrants, mostly German and Irish. The ethnic tension that dogged the regiment during its existence reflected an uneasy mix. The regiment included Copperhead and abolitionis
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"Miller makes a persuasive case . . . Miller's book [is] among the best of the hundreds of Civil War regimental histories."--New York Review of Books

"Richard F. Miller's Harvard's Civil War is one of the finest regimental studies to appear in years. Based upon extensive archival research and finely written, Miller's book is a model work on a Civil War unit. The narrative flows in the descriptions of regimental personalities, of internal conflicts, and of engagements. The voices of the unit's officers and men fill the pages. Miller's accomplishment is simply outstanding."--The Civil War News

"In Harvard's Civil War, Richard F. Miller gives an account of the Harvard-officered 20th Massachusetts Infantry that will appeal as much to Civil War buffs as to loyal alums. This is not the better-known 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the black regiment led by Robert Gould Shaw, or Charles Russell Lowell Jr.'s Second Massachusetts Cavalry. Seeing action in many of the major battles of the war, it was known as 'The Bloody 20th."--Boston Globe

"[A] wonderful addition to the existing list of Civil War unit histories. It is a fine and moving book about an important regiment from New England and is recommended for all students of the Civil War, whether they are Boston Brahmins or the children of Irish millworkers."--The New England Quarterly

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781584655053
  • Publisher: University Press of New England
  • Publication date: 8/9/2005
  • Pages: 554
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.16 (h) x 1.61 (d)

Meet the Author

RICHARD F. MILLER is an independent scholar. He is the author of A Carrier at War: On Board the USS Kitty Hawk in the Iraq War (2005) and co-author (with Robert F. Mooney) of The Civil War: The Nantucket Experience (1994). Miller has written about the Massachusetts gentlemen of the Harvard Regiment in Historical Journal Of Massachusetts (2002) and the New England Quarterly (2002 and 2003), and has written on numerous other Civil War-related topics as well. A Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Miller is a graduate of Harvard and Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
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Table of Contents

Ch. 1 21 July 1865 1
Ch. 2 January 1861 10
Ch. 3 Filling the roster 16
Ch. 4 Camp Massasoit 29
Ch. 5 Ball's Bluff 51
Ch. 6 A regiment sundered 84
Ch. 7 The Peninsula, Yorktown, and the seven days 105
Ch. 8 To the Antietam 154
Ch. 9 The battles of Fredericksburg 181
Ch. 10 Second Fredericksburg 217
Ch. 11 Gettysburg 243
Ch. 12 Bristoe Station and Mine Run 278
Ch. 13 The fatal grind begins 314
Ch. 14 Trenches to trenches : Spotsylvania to Petersburg 349
Ch. 15 Deep Bottom, Reams' Station, and the end 397
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  • Posted October 8, 2010

    The best

    Of the several Civil War regimental histories that I've read -- and I've read some very good ones -- this one is probably the best of all. Harvard University has preserved countless letters, photographs, diaries, etc., and Richard Miller makes the most of this material. But he doesn't only cover the Harvardians in the 20th Massachusetts. He also tells us a great deal about the others involved: Irish and German immigrants, waterfront toughs, etc. This book on one of the greatest regiment of the Civil War on either side, is one that is well worth reading.

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