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

by Alan D Gaff

Overview

'Alan Gaff is a master of research. He has a unique feeling of the lives and deaths of common soldiers. His book reflects an unusual intimacy and immediacy. It is a great story, greatly told.'-Alan Nolan, author of The Iron Brigade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253330635
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	01/28/1997
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.45(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.54(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments		xiii	(2)
Introduction		xv	(4)
A Note on Quoted Material		xix
1. Richmond City Greys		1	(10)
2. Camp Morton		11	(21)
3. Camp Kalorama		32	(15)
4. Affair at Lewinsville		47	(16)
5. Indiana Hospital		63	(19)
6. Arlington Heights		82	(9)
7. Headquaters Guard		91	(8)
8. Winter Camp		99	(14)
9. Spring Advance		113	(9)
10. Arrival of Gibbon		122	(8)
11. The Legging Mutiny		130	(9)
12. Campaigning under Pope		139	(12)
13. Brawner Farm		151	(16)
14. Aftermath		167	(9)
15. Battles in Maryland		176	(15)
16. The Iron Brigade		191	(8)
17. South to Fredericksburg		199	(15)
18. Valley Forge		214	(12)
19. Fitzhugh Crossing		226	(14)
20. North Again		240	(15)
21. Gettysburg		255	(11)
22. Last Stand		266	(14)
23. Back to Virginia		280	(9)
24. Along the Rapidan		289	(12)
25. The Veteran Question		301	(13)
26. Veteran Furlough		314	(9)
27. Arrival of Grant		323	(13)
28. Into the Wilderness		336	(11)
29. Grant's Campaign		347	(11)
30. Nadir at Petersburg		358	(11)
31. Weldon Railroad		369	(11)
32. Betrayal		380	(10)
33. 20th Indiana		390	(13)
34. The Last Winter		403	(9)
35. Appomattox		412	(7)
36. Peace		419	(5)
Epilogue: Home		424	(3)
Roster of Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers		427	(10)
Notes		437	(35)
Bibliography		472	(13)
Index		485

Editorial Reviews

Presents the history of a Civil War combat organization: Company B, the 19th Indiana volunteers. Follows the men from recruitment through mustering out, from camp to battle, portraying the psychological and emotional effects of war and describing the mens' political views, attitudes toward home and family, and feelings about facing death. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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