The 16th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Revised and Updated

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  • The 16th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Revised and Updated Book Detail

  • Author : Kim Crawford
  • Release Date : 2019-08-01
  • Publisher : Michigan State University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9781611863338
  • File Size : 43,43 MB
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The 16th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Revised and Updated by Kim Crawford PDF Summary

Book Description: On the hot summer evening of July 2, 1863, at the climax of the struggle for a Pennsylvania hill called Little Round Top, four Confederate regiments charge up the western slope, attacking the smallest and most exposed of their Union foe: the 16th Michigan Infantry. Terrible fighting has raged, but what happens next will ultimately—and unfairly—stain the reputation of one of the Army of the Potomac’s veteran combat outfits, made up of men from Detroit, Saginaw, Ontonagon, Hillsdale, Lansing, Adrian, Plymouth, and Albion. In the dramatic interpretation of the struggle for Little Round Top that followed the Battle of Gettysburg, the 16th Michigan Infantry would be remembered as the one that broke during perhaps the most important turning point of the war. Their colonel, a young lawyer from Ann Arbor, would pay with his life, redeeming his own reputation, while a kind of code of silence about what happened at Little Round Top was adopted by the regiment’s survivors. From soldiers’ letters, journals, and memoirs, this book relates their experiences in camp, on the march, and in battle, including their controversial role at Gettysburg, up to the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.

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