An Immigrant Regiment's Civil War
by Brian Matthew Jordan
appears in Civil War.
Brian Matthew Jordan?s Marching Home, a ?powerful exploration? (Washington Post) of the fates of Union veterans, vaulted him into the first rank of Civil War historians. Now, in A Thousand May Fall, Jordan sends us trundling along dusty roads with the 107th Ohio, an ethnically German infantry regiment whose members battled nativism no less than Con...
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