English edition. The many personal accounts from the battlefields; by the soldiers of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment; penned in letters to family and friends; remain a most evocative and moving contribution to Civil War history and valuable primary source material to a wrenching national experience. These intimate narratives relate both the horrors of the conflict and the loyalty of the young men; many of them recent arrivals from Norway; to what they consistently refer to as "our new fatherland". When he produced the book in 1916; Ager wished to convey to a generation of Norwegian-Americans the significant contribution that their recent ancestors had made to American history. This new translation passes those stories along to their grandchildren; great-grandchildren; and beyond.
#3301895 in Books Northern Illinois University Press 2002-09Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 1.00 x 6.00l; 1.22 #File Name: 0875803040266 pages
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