brigade history

＂I am immensely impressed . . . this particular Brigade needed a book of its own and now it has one which is definitely first-rate. . . . A fine book.＂ --Bruce Catton

＂One of the ’100 best books ever written on the Civil War.’＂ --Civil War Times Illustrated

＂ . . . remains one of the best unit histories of the Union Army during the Civil War.＂ --Southern Historian

＂. . . The Iron Brigade is the title for anyone desiring complete information on this military unit . . .＂ --Spring Creek Packet, Chuck Hamsa

This is the story of the most famous unit in the Union Army, the only all-Western brigade in the Eastern armies of the Union--made up of troops from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

ALAN T. NOLAN was born in Indiana and is a lawyer in Indianapolis. He is the author of Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History.