Hailing from the Keystone State's rugged western counties, the
Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves was one of the Civil War's most
heavily engaged units. Of more than 2,100 regiments raised by the
North, it suffered the eighth highest number of battle deaths,
earning it the gruesome sobriquet "Bloody Eleventh."
Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" tells the story of this
often-overlooked element of the Army of the Potomac from before the
war up through 1864. Drawing on letters, diaries, and archival
documents, Joseph Gibbs writes of men such as Colonel Thomas
Gallagher, who led his troops into battle smoking a cigar, and
Samuel Jackson, who became the regiment's commander following
Gallagher's promotion. He rediscovers the complexities of the men
who commanded the brigades and divisions of which the Eleventh
Reserves was a part--figures such as George Meade, John Reynolds,
and Samuel Crawford.
While Gibbs writes about the officers, he never loses sight of
the men in the ranks who marched into places such as Gaines' Mill,
Miller's Cornfield at Antietam, and the Wheatfield at Gettysburg.
Nor does he forget the homes, wives, and children they left behind
in western Pennsylvania.
With its meticulous research and lucid prose, Three Years in the
"Bloody Eleventh" provides both scholars and Civil War enthusiasts
with an unprecedented look inside the trials and tribulations of
one of the war's most battle-tested units.
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