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

"... an excellent unit history of a renowned regiment... " --The Civil War News

"... American history on a human scale... " --Kirkus Reviews

"The author gives some of the best descriptions of the daily life of a Civil War soldier that can be found anywhere." --Library Journal

"On Many a Bloody Field is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship and painstaking historical research." --The Bookwatch

"... meticulously researched, day-by-day history of Company B, 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment.... [T]he real essence of this book is its detailed attention to the common soldiers.... [A]s a representative of its genre, it probably is without many peers." --Journal of Southern History

On Many a Bloody Field follows one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations--Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade, in a vivid account of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Alan Gaff follows the men from recruitment through mustering out, from the tedium of camp to the excitement of battle. A close-up view of the experience of war, told from the soldiers' perspective, often in the words of the men themselves.

. . . an excellent unit history of a renowned regiment . . . --The Civil War News

. . . American history on a human scale . . . --Kirkus Reviews

The author gives some of the best descriptions of the daily life of a Civil War soldier that can be found anywhere. --Library Journal

On Many a Bloody Field is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship and painstaking historical research. --The Bookwatch

. . . meticulously researched, day-by-day history of Company B, 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment. . . . T]he real essence of this book is its detailed attention to the common soldiers. . . . A]s a representative of its genre, it probably is without many peers. --Journal of Southern History

On Many a Bloody Field follows one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations--Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade, in a vivid account of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Alan Gaff follows the men from recruitment through mustering out, from the tedium of camp to the excitement of battle. A close-up view of the experience of war, told from the soldiers' perspective, often in the words of the men themselves.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Note on Quoted Material

1. Richmond City Greys

2. Camp Morton

3. Camp Kalorama

4. Affair at Lewinsville

5. Indiana Hospital

6. Arlington Heights

7. Headquarters Guard

8. Winter Camp

9. Spring Advance

10. Arrival of Gibbon

11. The Legging Mutiny

12. Campaigning under Pope

13. Brawner Farm

14. Aftermath

15. Battles in Maryland

16. The Iron Brigade

17. South to Fredericksburg

18. Valley Forge

19. Fitzhugh Crossing

20. North Again

21. Gettysburg

22. Last Stand

23. Back to Virginia

24. Along the Rapidan

25. The Veteran Question

26. Veteran Furlough

27. Arrival of Grant

28. Into the Wilderness

29. Grant's Campaign

30. Nadir at Petersburg

31. Weldon Railroad

32. Betrayal

33. 20th Indiana

34. The Last Winter

35. Appomattox

36. Peace

Epilogue: Home

Roster of Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers

Notes

Bibliography

Index