Military Images, July 1st, 2000
One of the first scholarly books on the American Civil War that this author ever read was Ella Lonn's classic Foreigners in the Union Army. I must have been in high school at the time, because some of my drawings from high school reflect her descriptions of Civil War uniforms. Those uniform descriptions that Ms. Lonn quoted from various newspapers were what drew me to her book in the first place, but through the years I became more interested in her accounts of the various immigrant groups and individuals who participated in our orgy of national fratricide. Even though her book is somewhat dat...
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