The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers (Minnesota)
 

The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers (Minnesota)

by Richard Moe

Since its publication, Richard Moe?s THE LAST FULL MEASURE has garnered a reputation as one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War and the definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment.
Moe?s chronicle of the First Minnesota has received wide acclaim from reviewers and historians alike. As James MacGregor Burns notes in his foreword to the book, "Like... (read more)

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The primary sources are letters and memoirs of the ordinary soldiers. There were also quite a few who acted as special correspondents for their local papers...sort of embedded reporters who weren't afraid to express their dislike of certain officers or decisions. These stories are heartbreaking and inspiring.

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