Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-1865Warren Wilkinson delivers a gutsy, candid, meticulously researched look at the day-to-day existence of a single Federal regiment in the final year of the Civil War. The regiment, the 57th Massachusettes Veteran Volunteers, was destined for hell in that final glamorless year. There is considerable evidence that the 57th suffered the highest percentage of killed and mortally wounded of any Union regiment in the war. 85 photographs; 11 maps. |
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Camp John E Wool | 1 |
Forming the Line | 16 |
The Girl I Left Behind | 34 |
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1st Division 35th MVI Absent sick Absent wounded and/or credit Anderson army general hospital Bartlett Barton letters blue Born brown Camp Wool Carolina campaign Cold Harbor Colonel command Comp Company Corps dark Delaney house Dept Detached and detailed disability from wounds discharged in Readville Enlisted in Worcester expiration of service Eyes Federal Field Hospital Fitchburg Fort Stedman Hair Harrington diary Height Ibid IX Corps John John Anderson July 30 June 17 Libby Prison light lines March 25 MSSM mustered April mustered Feb mustered Jan mustered March Never in combat North Anna River Occup officers Petersburg assaults picket Poplar Grove Church previous service prisoner of war Rebel regiment at Delaney regiment for duty Sept service for disability skirmishes and battles soldiers Spotsylvania Court House Springfield Stedman taken prisoner tered trenches troops Weld Weldon Railroad Wilderness Worcester by Capt wounded in action