They All Wore a Star: In the Fight for the Four-Gun Battery during the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, May 15, 1864

Many soldiers of a Civil War brigade tell of their first battle. "We remember the silent movement of the line through the woods, the ringing cheer for Indiana, the sweep across the field, the odor of resin as the canister burst above us, the sand thrown in our faces by the shot that struck before us, the rush through the thicket, the dash into the redoubt, the breastworks in rear deserted by the flying enemy, the agonizing cry to our men behind to stop firing on us, the determined feeling a...