" The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story
of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment
raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where
Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave
state where Lincoln received only 0.9 percent of the 1860
presidential vote, the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought and
died for the Union for over three years, participating in all the
battles of the Atlanta campaign, as well as the battles of
Perryville, Stones River and Chickamauga. Using primary research,
including soldiers' letters and diaries, hundreds of contemporary
newspaper reports, official army records, and postwar memoirs, Kirk
C. Jenkins vividly brings the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry to life.
The book also includes an extensive biographical roster summarizing
the service record of each soldier in the thousand-member unit.
Kirk C. Jenkins, a descendant of the Fifteenth Kentucky's Captain
Smith Bayne, is a partner in a Chicago law firm. Click here for
Kirk Jenkins' website and more information about the 15th Kentucky
Infantry.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!