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Blue Lightning
Richard A. Baumgartner
其他書名
Wilder's Mounted Infantry Brigade in the Battle of Chickamauga
出版
Blue Acorn Press
, 1997
主題
History / United States / State & Local / General
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN
1885033176
9781885033178
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WGgVAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
With a potent combination of rapid-firing Spencer rifles, aggressive and determined leadership, and unlimited confidence in themselves, the soldiers of Colonel John T. Wilder's mounted Lightning Brigade -- so christened during the summer of 1863 -- solidified a reputation in the savage battle of Chickamauga as one of the Union Army's hardest fighting and most effective combat organizations. His five Indiana and Illinois regiments, along with Eli Lilly's Indiana Battery, confronted troops from five different Confederate brigades during three clays of fighting, and badly bloodied them all. In Blue Lightning, author Richard A. Baumgartner skillfully blends dozens of first-person narratives, including eyewitness accounts from 60 Lightning Brigade officers and enlisted men, with 156 photographs -- many of them never before published -- to vividly depict one major segment of this brigade's proud history during the Civil War.