On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade by Alan & Maureen Gaff
. . . an excellent unit history of a renowned regiment . . . -The Civil War News
. . . American history on a human scale . . . -Kirkus Reviews
The author gives some of the best descriptions of the daily life of a Civil War soldier that can be found anywhere. -Library Journal
On Many a Bloody Field is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship and painstaking historical research. -The Bookwatch
. . . meticulously researched, day-by-day history of Company B, 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment. . . . [T]he real essence of this book is its detailed attention to the common soldiers. . . . [A]s a representative of its genre, it probably is without many peers. -Journal of Southern History
On Many a Bloody Field follows one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations-Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade, in a vivid account of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Alan Gaff follows the men from recruitment through mustering out, from the tedium of camp to the excitement of battle. A close-up view of the experience of war, told from the soldiers' perspective, often in the words of the men themselves.