From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community

by Dennis W. Brandt

Book Overview

The soldiers of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry fought in the Overland campaign under Grant and in the Shenandoah valley under Sheridan, notably at the Battle of Monocacy. But as Dennis Brandt reveals in From Home Guards to Heroes , their real story takes place beyond the battlefield. The 87th drew its men from the Scotch-Irish and German populations of York and Adams counties in south-central Pennsylvania--a region with closer ties to Baltimore than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826221734
• ISBN13: 9780826221735
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5