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Rufus Dawes of the Iron Brigade - Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers During the American Civil War (Hardcover)
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Rufus Dawes of the Iron Brigade - Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers During the American Civil War (Hardcover)
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With the Iron Brigade on campaign and battlefield
For students of the American Civil War, the name Rufus Dawes will
be forever associated with the famous Iron Brigade of the Union
Army-that hardy and courageous assembly of regiments from the
western states whose steadfastness in the thickest of battlefield
conflicts earned them their descriptive nickname. Born in 1838,
Dawes was just 23 years old when the Civil War broke out and he
became a captain in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, the
regiment he would, in time, come to famously command. Dawes was
always an ardent and aggressive battlefield commander. He served
with the regiment at Groveton, Antietam, Fredericksburg and through
the Chancellorsville campaign. At Gettysburg he notably led the
counter-attack on Davis's Confederate brigade sheltering in a
railway cutting and there took some 200 prisoners. Dawes served at
Mine Run, the Wilderness Campaign, the sieges of Petersburg and
Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor in 1864. Worn out physically and
mentally, Dawes was mustered out after three years of the most
intensive combat-he was just 26 years old. The following year he
was promoted to brevet brigadier general. This book, Dawes' own
account of his regiment of 'Black Hats' of the Iron Brigade, is an
acknowledged classic of the period.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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