Iron Brigade

Lt. David Birrell    24th Michigan
Killed at Fredericksburg
A cousin of my wife, Susan.

IRN016   Dear Sarah: Letters Home from a Soldier of the Iron Brigade.
Lassen & Pardington
John Pardington, of the 24th Michigan Infantry, wrote more than eighty letters to his wife and baby during campaigns from Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville. These touching love letters are made even more heart rending because he was killed later at the battle of Gettysburg.

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IRN015   Giants In Their Tall Black Hats.   Essays on the Iron Brigade  
M.d by Nolan & Vipond
Known for wearing the regular army's dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, the Iron Brigade was the only all-Western brigade in the Eastern armies of the Union.

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IRN013   The Men Stood Like Iron.  How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name  
L.J. Herdegen
Follows Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers, Iron Brigade, in a vivid account of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances.

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IRN011   Iron Men, Iron Will.  the Nineteenth Indiana Regiment of the Iron Brigade
L.J. Herdegen
Using hundreds of new diary and journal entries and letters, the author shows the individual progress through the war. 

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IRN008   Letters Home. Henry Matrau of the Iron Brigade.
Matrau
Sixty-three previously unpublished letters from a young Civil War soldier to his family in Bainbridge Township, Michigan, written while he served with the Sixth Wisconsin.

 

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