Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-1865
Retells a Federal regiment's exploits in the last year of the Civil War
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Based primarily on the diaries and letters of the men who were there, this is a look at the day-to-day existence the fatigue, the terror, the boredom, the heroism and cowardice of the Federal unit that likely suffered the highest percentage of killed and mortally wounded of any Union regiment in the War. With many photographs, and a massive appendix profiling more than 1,000 members of the regiment. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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