regimental histories

Chronicles the experiences of the men who fought in the Stonewall Brigade of the Confederacy and the Iron Brigade of the Union during the Civil War.

The biography of Susie King Taylor, a runaway slave, who founded a school and taught both children and adults how to read and write, and who was the first Black Civil War nurse to write her own story.

Relates the experiences of a Colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first ex-slave regiment mustered by the U.S. in the Civil War.

Presents Bruce Catton's chronicle of the last year of the Civil War, from the Battle of the Wilderness to the surrender at Appomattox, and contains ten related documents including book excerpts, Civil War soldiers' diary entries, and letters by Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.

Chronicles the history of the First Minnesota Volunteers, the first regiment offered to Lincoln after the fall of Fort Sumter.