77th New York Volunteers: "Sojering" in the VI Corps

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Summary: A complete and meticulously researched history
Review: 77th New York Volunteers: "Sojering" In The VI Corps is a complete and meticulously researched history of one of the most respected units of the Union Army. Also known as the Bemis Heights Regiment, it was organized by Congressman James McKean from recruits principally drawn from Essex, Fulton, and Saratoga counties. Leaving for the battlefront on Thanksgiving Day, 1861, the 77th New York Volunteers were to see action in Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, Fort Steadman, Appomattox, and more than 46 other civil war battlefields both major and minor, tactical and strategic. Author Robert Morrow deftly personalizes this history with firsthand accounts of representative members of what became an enduring military brotherhood of men who came together after war's end for fifty annual reunions. No dedicated Civil War Studies collection or supplemental reading list would be complete without the addition of Robert Morrow's 77th New York Volunteers: "Sojering" In The VI Corps.


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Summary: Spinning a Tale of Honor
Review: The "77th New York Volunteers: 'Sojering' in the VI Corps" spins an instructive insight into the lives of Union 'sojers' of the 77th, filled with firsthand accounts of fear and bravery, duty and honor, comedy and tragedy, so thoroughly researched by the great-great-grandson of just such a sojer.