Description: In the fading light of August 28, 1862, an untested Union brigade of Wisconsin and Indiana men fought an unexpected 90-minute stand-up clash with the Confederate veterans of Stonewall Jackson on the Virginia farm fields of John Brawner. The Rebels recalled one Wisconsin man was "yelling like demons" that day in "a roaring hell of fire.
Brief description: Lance J. Herdegen is the author of several books. Those Damned Black Hats: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign (Savas Beatie, 2008) won the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Writing Award for Battle/Operational History and The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory: The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter (Savas Beatie, 2012) received the Iron Brigade Association Award. Lance enjoyed a long career as a journalist with the United Press International (UPI) news wire service and was recently inducted into the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame. He lives in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin.
Review Quotes: "Lance Herdegen (Union) and William Backus (Confederate) have successfully merged two well-researched micro-histories that carry the commands up to and through the bloody fight at Brawner's Farm. Finally, we have something new and original in Civil War scholarship. This book is utterly absorbing, and readers will not want to put it down."--John Michael Priest, author of "Stand to It and Give Them Hell" Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced It from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863, and "Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children" John Reynolds' I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863