A regimental history of one of the Civil War's most distinguished units.
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"Miller makes a persuasive case . . . Miller's book [is among the best of the hundreds of Civil War regimental histories."--New York Review of Books
"Richard F. Miller's Harvard's Civil War is one of the finest regimental studies to appear in years. Based upon extensive archival research and finely written, Miller's book is a model work on a Civil War unit. The narrative flows in the descriptions of regimental personalities, of internal conflicts, and of engagements. The voices of the unit's officers and men fill the pages. Miller's accomplishment is simply outstanding."--The Civil War News
"In Harvard's Civil War, Richard F. Miller gives an account of the Harvard-officered 20th Massachusetts Infantry that will appeal as much to Civil War buffs as to loyal alums. This is not the better-known 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the black regiment led by Robert Gould Shaw, or Charles Russell Lowell Jr.'s Second Massachusetts Cavalry. Seeing action in many of the major battles of the war, it was known as 'The Bloody 20th."--Boston Globe
"[A wonderful addition to the existing list of Civil War unit histories. It is a fine and moving book about an important regiment from New England and is recommended for all students of the Civil War, whether they are Boston Brahmins or the children of Irish millworkers."--The New England Quarterly
"Richard F. Miller's Harvard's Civil War is one of the finest regimental studies to appear in years. Based upon extensive archival research and finely written, Miller's book is a model work on a Civil War unit. The narrative flows in the descriptions of regimental personalities, of internal conflicts, and of engagements. The voices of the unit's officers and men fill the pages. Miller's accomplishment is simply outstanding."--The Civil War News
"In Harvard's Civil War, Richard F. Miller gives an account of the Harvard-officered 20th Massachusetts Infantry that will appeal as much to Civil War buffs as to loyal alums. This is not the better-known 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the black regiment led by Robert Gould Shaw, or Charles Russell Lowell Jr.'s Second Massachusetts Cavalry. Seeing action in many of the major battles of the war, it was known as 'The Bloody 20th."--Boston Globe
"[A wonderful addition to the existing list of Civil War unit histories. It is a fine and moving book about an important regiment from New England and is recommended for all students of the Civil War, whether they are Boston Brahmins or the children of Irish millworkers."--The New England Quarterly
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"Richard Miller's Harvard's Civil War is quite simply the most outstanding Civil War regimental history I have read. One of the best units in the Army of the Potomac, officered by Harvard alumni, the 20th Massachusetts Infantry fought in all of that army's battles and earned plaudits to match its heavy casualties. Walt Whitman's prediction that the real war would never get in the books was wrong; the real war is in this book." (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom )
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A superb glimpse into the sufferings, sacrifices, and triumphs of a truly courageous and hardy military unit,
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This review is from: Harvard's Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Hardcover)
Independent scholar Richard F. Miller presents Harvard's Civil War: A History Of The Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, an in-depth scholarly study of one of the most influential northern units in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Nicknamed "The Harvard Regiment" due to the quantity of its Crimson-connected officers, this infantry unit was destined to experience the worst of nearly every major battle of the Army of the Potomac from Ball's Bluff (1861) to Grant's Overland Campaign. Because so many of its officer corps were educated men, the Harvard Regiment left behind numerous diaries, memoirs, and letters, which form a solid base of source material for this exhaustive examination of many different personalities that comprised the unit, from abolitionists to radical German emigres that had escaped the failed revolution of 1848 to the sons of prominent Republicans and more. Ethnic tensions further exacerbated the stress of the war itself. Extensively researched and annotated with an index for quick reference, Harvard's Civil War is a superb glimpse into the sufferings, sacrifices, and triumphs of a truly courageous and hardy military unit.
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A superb glimpse into the sufferings, sacrifices, and triumphs of a truly courageous and hardy military unit,
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This review is from: Harvard's Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Hardcover)
Independent scholar Richard F. Miller presents Harvard's Civil War: A History Of The Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, an in-depth scholarly study of one of the most influential northern units in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Nicknamed "The Harvard Regiment" due to the quantity of its Crimson-connected officers, this infantry unit was destined to experience the worst of nearly every major battle of the Army of the Potomac from Ball's Bluff (1861) to Grant's Overland Campaign. Because so many of its officer corps were educated men, the Harvard Regiment left behind numerous diaries, memoirs, and letters, which form a solid base of source material for this exhaustive examination of many different personalities that comprised the unit, from abolitionists to radical German emigres that had escaped the failed revolution of 1848 to the sons of prominent Republicans and more. Ethnic tensions further exacerbated the stress of the war itself. Extensively researched and annotated with an index for quick reference, Harvard's Civil War is a superb glimpse into the sufferings, sacrifices, and triumphs of a truly courageous and hardy military unit.
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Harvard's Civil War,
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This review is from: Harvard's Civil War: The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Paperback)
Richard F. Miller's HARVARD'S CIVIL WAR: THE HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY is the best Civil War regimental history ever written. It excels in its structure, its prodigious research, its wealth of personal detail, its grasp of the 20th's internal strength - and rifts - and, not least, in the quality of Miller's lucid, trenchant writing.
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In the bright, warm forenoon of 21 July 1865, some one thousand Harvard graduates-almost one-half of all living alumni-streamed into Harvard Yard toward Gore Hall, a Gothic edifice of gray Quincy granite that housed the college library. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Twentieth Massachusetts, Colonel Lee, New York, Governor Andrew, Wendell Holmes, Doctor Perry, Ball's Bluff, Nineteenth Massachusetts, Sixth Corps, Doctor Hayward, Seventh Michigan, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Major Revere, Third Corps, Harvard College, Raymond Lee, Bristoe Station, Bull Sumner, Deep Bottom, Harrison Island, Frank Bartlett, Paul Revere, Fifteenth Massachusetts, Pen Hallowell New!
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In the bright, warm forenoon of 21 July 1865, some one thousand Harvard graduates-almost one-half of all living alumni-streamed into Harvard Yard toward Gore Hall, a Gothic edifice of gray Quincy granite that housed the college library. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Twentieth Massachusetts, Colonel Lee, New York, Governor Andrew, Wendell Holmes, Doctor Perry, Ball's Bluff, Nineteenth Massachusetts, Sixth Corps, Doctor Hayward, Seventh Michigan, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Major Revere, Third Corps, Harvard College, Raymond Lee, Bristoe Station, Bull Sumner, Deep Bottom, Harrison Island, Frank Bartlett, Paul Revere, Fifteenth Massachusetts, Pen Hallowell New!
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