Title: Best regimental history of VI Corps 2nd Div 3rd Brigade
Product review: My mother's maternal grandfather fought in the 43rd NY, part of the same brigade as the 77th NY. Regimental histories range from non-existent (43rd) to memoirs of veterans (typically published around 1900 and therefore susceptible to fuzzy or aggrandized memory), to researched modern work.The old books are out of print, so what's available for sale are scanned. They lack graphics, the type is often garbled, and any index is worthless because of re-pagination.In contrast, this book is a modern work. It has an excellent selection of photographs & drawings specific to the regiment. Notes and an accurate index appear at the back. Like me, the author is a retired engineer whose late interest in the Civil War began with curiosity about his ancestor. The result has been very useful in my own attempt to learn about my great-grandfather, since by 1864 the brigade of five (later six) regiments was as few as 800 men, so they knew each other.
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