A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut's Civil War

by Lesley J. Gordon

Book Overview

A Broken Regiment recounts the tragic history of one of the Civil War's most ill-fated Union military units. Organized in the late summer of 1862, the 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry was unprepared for battle a month later, when it entered the fight at Antietam. The results were catastrophic: nearly a quarter of the men were killed or wounded, and Connecticut's 16th panicked and fled the field. In the years that followed, the regiment participated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807157309
• ISBN13: 9780807157305
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"