A Look Inside The trials & tribulations of one of the Civil War's most battle-tested units.

" ... profiles ... contain an overview of each colonel's military career, including his previous ranks and commands; his occupation and education; his dates of

From the acclaimed Civil War historian, and coinciding with 150th anniversary of the legendary battle: an intimate and richly readable account that draws the re

Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History An Economist Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Battle of Ge

Of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the Civil War, two-thirds, by some estimates, were felled by disease; untold others were lost to accidents,