Harvestfields of Death: The Twentieth Indiana Volunteers of Gettysburg [Hardcover]

Craig L. Dunn (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 450 pages
• Publisher: Cardinal Publishers Group; 1 edition (September 7, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578600391
• ISBN-13: 978-1578600397
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,451,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Impressively informative and well written history, August 8, 2004

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This review is from: Harvestfields of Death: The Twentieth Indiana Volunteers of Gettysburg (Hardcover)

Also available in a paperback edition (1578600383, $24.95), Harvestfields Of Death: The Twentieth Indiana Volunteers Of Gettysburg is an impressively informative and well written history that has as its focus the men who fought for the Union cause in one of the Civil War's most important battles. Formed by volunteers in resistance to the threat of Confederate invasion into Indiana and Ohio, the Twentieth Indiana Volunteers is the unit that fought valiantly in the lethal morass of the Seven Days battles, Second Manassas, and in the wheatfields of Gettysburg. Author Craig Dunn draws upon hundreds of private documents and a wealth of pictures to tell the remarkable story of individualist Hoosiers who "wrote their names in blood across the harvesfields of the Eastern theatre of war". Harvestfields Of Death is a welcome and seminal contribution to Civil War Studies and highly commended to the attention of both academia, the Civil War buff, and the non-specialist general reader with a particular interest in the role that Indiana men played in defense of the Union and their home state.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is One Great Book, February 15, 2001

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Bob Williams (Indianapolis, Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harvestfields of Death: The Twentieth Indiana Volunteers of Gettysburg (Hardcover)

"When I was sixteen years of age I traded the golden harvestfields of grain for the red harvestfields of death." With these words the book Harvestfields of Death begins the epic journey of the men of the Twentieth Indiana Volunteers through the Civil War. An heroic regiment and an equally heroic endeavor to write this history. Craig Dunn is becoming the finest Civil War historian of his generation.