The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Shaara Marszalek traces the sixteenth president’s

Marszalek traces the sixteenth president’s evolution from a nonmilitary politician into the commander in chief who won the Civil War

and preservation of the United States

Milroy’s controversial decision to stand and fight pitted his outnumbered and largely inexperienced men against some of Lee’s finest veterans

that brings to life the words of Lincoln’s awe-inspiring response to one of the Civil War’s costliest conflicts

The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Shaara Marszalek traces the sixteenth president’sby Diana L. Dretske When curator Diana L. Dretske discovered that the five long gone Union soldiers in a treasured photograph in the Bess Bower Dunn Museum were not fully identified, it compelled her into a project of recovery and reinterpretation. Utilizing an impressive array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the authors microhistorical approach records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle