Isn't This Glorious!: The 15th, 19th, And 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiments at Gettysburg's Copse of Trees - Hardcover

Root, Edwin R.; Stocker, Jeffrey D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0977314006 ISBN 13: 9780977314003

Publisher: Moon Trail Books Llc, 2005

Synopsis

From a research standpoint this book is a tour de force. The authors have made liberal use of data culled from primary source materials found in many repositories including Massachusetts libraries and historical societies, Gettysburg National Military Park records, and literally hundreds of soldiers' military and pension records from the National Archives. There is a plethora of photographs and a number of outstanding fold-out maps sewn into the binding. With over 50 pages of endnotes and a detailed bibliography, any historian should be able to follow the paths of these researchers. The book, however, will also be of interest to general readers.

About this title

About the Author

Edwin R. Root is a retired systems business analyst and has served with the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association. He is currently a member of the Board of the Families of Flight 93, Inc., serving in honor of the passengers and crew, one of whom was his cousin. Mr. Root and his wife, Nancy, live in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania.Jeffrey D. Stocker is a practicing attorney in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of "From Huntsville to Appomattox", Robert T. Coles' History of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He and his wife, Marliese Walter, reside in Center Valley, Pennsylvania.

From the Inside Flap

"Isn't This Glorious!" chronicles the military and post-war experiences of many men of the 15th, 19th, and 20th Massachusetts infantry regiments. In the first part of the book--drawing on letters, diaries, newly prepared maps and little-known or seldom used pension records--veteran battlefield preservationists and historians Edwin Root and Jeffrey Stocker analyze the role played by these gallant and determined men in repulsing Pickett's Charge. Their account of the terrible cost of the Civil War in human terms also lends this work a larger significance. The book's second half recounts the Massachusetts' veterans struggle to have their role acknowledged, and details the often-overlooked process of battlefield monumentation. In telling these stories, "It is the authors' desire to have the actions of the men of the 15th, 19th, and 20th Massachusetts regiments in the fighting on July 3, 1863 properly interpreted, in order to do them full justice. Their conduct on that bloody day deserves nothing less."

Edition details

• Publisher: Moon Trail Books Llc
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977314006
• ISBN 13: 9780977314003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 237