Brothers of War The Iron Brigade at Gettysburg

Mike, I met you last Saturday at the ABC in G-Burg. Bought your book that night and just finished it. Wow! Thank you so much for the experience.......more

Best Damn Civil War Accounting! Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2021 James, Solomon, Elijah, Hawk and others make up the men of this often forgotten and untaught piece of our national history. I was so caught up in this book that I forgot where I was while blinking away tears of sorrow and......more

The characters are described so well that you come to know them as friends. You will mourn at their losses and revel in their victories. We've all heard of the Gettysburg of Pickens Charge and the army without Stone Wall Jackson however, "Brothers of War" gives us an in depth view of the soldier in......more

The Iron Brigade (also known as the Black Hats because they wore the hats of the US Regulars) in the Union Army of the Potomac initially consisted of the 2nd, 6th, 7th Wisconsin Infantry and the 19th Indiana Infantry. Battery B, 4th US Artillery was attached to the brigade. The brigade after severe......more

I gave this book five stars as it was a very good read; one that got better and more interesting as you continued to read it. At first I wasn't all into it, but as a huge Civil War reader, I thought it was worth hanging on, to see what happened in this "Fiction" story, that was actually based on som......more