Colonel Heg and His Boys: A Norwegian Regiment in the American Civil War (Travel & Description Series, 13)

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English edition. The various personal accounts from the battlefields, by the warriors of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment, penned in letters to friends and family, remain a such a lot evocative and moving contribution to Civil War history and valuable number one source subject matter 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 contemporary arrivals from Norway, to what they consistently refer to as “our new place of birth”. When he produced the book in 1916, Ager wished to convey to a generation of Norwegian-Americans the numerous contribution that their contemporary ancestors had made to American history. This new translation passes the ones stories along to their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and beyond.

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