The 24th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War

Formed in the summer of 1862, the 24th Wisconsin Infantry participated in many major battles of the Western theatre, earning a reputation as a brave, hard-fighting unit. Unlike unit histories, this book makes no attempt, as the author freely admits, to provide "an objective history" of the regiment. Rather, the book digs deeper, following the personal stories of the soldiers themselves, providing hundreds of individual vignettes that, taken together, paint a vivid picture of the life of a Union soldier.