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Iron Men, Iron Will

Name: Iron Men, Iron Will
Author: Craig L. Dunn
ISBN: 9781878208644

by Craig L. Dunn

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Overview

The career of the illustrious Nineteenth Indiana Regiment of the Iron Brigade is one of the great regimental stories of the war. Raised from central and Northern Indiana, the Hoosiers appeared in the East in July of 1861. Coarse and rough-shorn, they soon were known among Northern commanders as "indifferent soldiers." With the arrival of John Gibbon the regiment began to show the toughness and Western determination that eventually earned their brigade glory at Brawner Farm, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Craig Dunn has used his knowledge of the regiment as both a Hoosier and long-time collector of Civil War images to paint a full and detailed picture. Using hundreds of new diary and journal entries and letters Dunn shows the individual progress through the war of men like Private Abram Buckles, winner of the Medal of Honor for leading troops without field officers in an attack at the Wilderness, and Brigadier General Solomon Meredith. The regiment was in the heart of the agony of Antietam and the book thoroughly covers its heroic stand there. An excerpt from the time immediately afterwards, however, captures the essence of the experience of the young Midwestern soldier caught in the cataclysms of the army in the East.