From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community
- 312 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura


The soldiers of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry fought in the Overland campaign and in the Shenandoah valley. Dennis Brandt's unique regimental history investigates why these boys from York enlisted and why some deserted, the ways in which soldiers reflected their home communities, and the area's attitudes toward the war.