Published more than fifty years after the regiment left for the war, this history was commissioned by the 39th’s veteran association in 1911 and prepared for its surviving members. It follows the men from their camp at Lynnfield through the Virginia campaigns and the siege of Petersburg, with sketches of each company and accounts of suffering in Confederate prisons.
Rich material for genealogists and Civil War readers following a single Union regiment from muster to the end. Download the free EPUB.