THE TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT; Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1866 "New England Guard Regiment"

ROE, Alfred S.

Twenty-Fourth Veteran Association, 1907

Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover.  "For this work Roe leaned heavily on the writings of Cols. Thomas G. Stevenson and Francis Osborn; other memoirs were also employed in describing the regiment's several campaigns along the South Atlantic coast" [Nevins I, 153].   From the library of Richard J. Sommers. Dr. Sommers was a military historian at the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Sommers authored a number of books on the Civil War, notably The Siege at Petersburg, and taught for 44 years.