We Fought at Gettysburg: Firsthand Accounts by the Survivors of the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry [Hardcover]

We Fought At Gettysburg follows the 17th Connecticut Regiment through the Gettysburg Campaign and beyond in June and July of 1863. William H. Warren dedicated his life to compiling the accounts of his comrades in the 17th Connecticut. Many are published here for the first time. These are the words of those who lived through the trauma of combat and survived to write about it. Many of these men were wounded, taken prisoner, lost friends, and suffered themselves on this great battlefield of the war. These men tell what they experienced at Gettysburg in their own words. They describe what they saw, thought, and felt on the battlefield. Their story is told here through fascinating firsthand accounts, numerous photographs, including a photographic index of the regiment, and maps by Phil Laino.We Fought At Gettysburg follows the 17th Connecticut Regiment through the Gettysburg Campaign and beyond in June and July of 1863. William H. Warren dedicated his life to compiling the accounts of his comrades in the 17th Connecticut. Many are published here for the first time.A seminal and inherently fascinating contribution to the growing library of the American Civil War studies and histories& extraordinary and unreservedly recommended. Nothing epitomized how Civil War soldiers carried their regimental esprit de corps into the postwar years like the publication of a unit history. In the case of the 17th Connecticut Infantry, former private William Warren assumed the role of regimental historian and amassed a great body of material to write a book. Although his book was never published, Warrens thirteen-volume manuscript was preserved at the Bridgeport History Center. Now, Carolyn Ivanoff has used the Warren materials and others to present an in-depth account of the 17ths part in the campaign and battle of Gettysburg. Much of it is told in the soldiers own words, drawn from the Warren archives. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of images of the soldiers and the places where