The Civil War Journal
of Sgt. Ambrose Armitage, 8th Wisconsin Infantry
Edited with
annotations by Alden R. Carter
“Fascinating…comprehensive
[and]
superbly edited, Brother to the Eagle
will be welcomed both by
researchers and the reading public.” --Steven E. Woodworth,
author of Nothing but Victory: The
Army of the Tennessee
Recruited
from farms and country villages, the 8th Wisconsin Infantry became one
of the hardest marching and fighting units of the Civil War. At
its head, between the regimental colors and the national flag, rode the
eagle Old Abe, his defiant scream announcing the presence of the famed
8th on battlefields across the South. Sgt. Ambrose Armitage, a member
of the color guard, kept a journal of the regiment’s campaigns and the
daily life of its soldiers in perhaps the most detailed contemporaneous
account to come to light in the century and a half since the war.
Edited and annotated by novelist Alden R. Carter, Brother to the Eagle
provides an intimate portrait of a remarkable man who was both a stout
individualist and typical of so many of the young men who went off to
war in 1861. With scores of explanatory notes,
period pictures and maps, exhaustive appendices, and a running account
of the war keyed to Ambrose’s journal entries, Brother to the Eagle is
a reading experience unlike any other in the vast literature of the
Civil War.
$23.95 (ISBN 1-60145-042-7)
704
pages, maps, and photographs
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