Description
Product ID: | 9781780969183 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Men-at-Arms |
Title: | Lincoln’s 90-Day Volunteers 1861 |
Subtitle: | From Fort Sumter to First Bull Run |
Authors: | Author: Ron Field, Adam Hook |
Page Count: | 48 |
Subjects: | History, History, Warfare and defence, Warfare & defence |
Description: | Select Guide Rating On April 15th 1861, the day after the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to enlist for three months' service to defend the Union. This title describes and illustrates the actual appearance of this diverse and colorful force, including photographs, eyewitness accounts in period newspapers and letters. On April 15, the day after the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to enlist for three months'' service to defend the Union. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this is the engaging story of the first wave of soldiers who volunteered to defend and preserve the Union in 1861, based on detailed research in US sources, including many eye-witness accounts of their very varied uniforms and equipment. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-07-20 |