Although this book was originally published in 1916 it still stands as the classic regimental history of the First Minnesota in the Civil War. It has long been recognized as a major Civil War unit history by both collectors and historians from both Minnesota and the rest of the country. It was reprinted in 1987 in a limited quantity but that quick more...
This is the story of the most famous unit in the Union Army. Originally called the "Black Hat Brigade" because the soldiers wore the army's regular dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, the Iron Brigade was the only all-Western brigade in the Eastern armies of the Union. The Brigade was initially made up of the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wis more...
St. Croix Valley Civil War Round Table 1866, Reprinted in 2000.
Almost as soon as the cannonballs began fllying over Fort Sumter, Edwin Quiner systematically began collecting accounts of the great national cataclysm. Quiner was in a unique position to do so. A Madison journalist and printer with an interest in history, he had already been publish
The final book by Marquette University historian Frank L. Klement (1905-1994), this is a vivid chronological narrative of Wisconsin's role in the pivotal event in American history. In this volume, Klement greatly expanded his 1962 booklet on this topic, adding new material on each of Wisconsin's 53 infantry regiments, political and constitutional i more...
