Dennis Rasbach: 2 books
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign
His Supposed Charge from Fort Hell, his Near-Mortal Wounding, and a Civil War Myth Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain earned the sobriquet “Lion of the Round Top” for his tactical brilliance leading his 20th Maine Infantry on the rocky wooded slopes of Little Round Top at on the evening of July 2, 1863. Promoted to brigade command, he was presumed mortally wounded during an assault...
I Am Perhaps Dying
The Medical Backstory of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War (1860-1865). He was just 12 when he began and he died at 17, just weeks after the war ended. His remarkable account, recently published as *The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary...