Those Damned Black Hats!: The Iron Brigade In The Gettysburg Campaign
by Lance J. Herdegen /
2010 / English / EPUB
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The Iron Brigadean all-Western outfit famously branded as The Iron Brigade of the Westserved out their enlistments entirely in the Eastern Theater. Hardy men were these soldiers from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan, who waged war beneath their unique black Hardee Hats on many fields, from Brawner's Farm during the Second Bull Run Campaign all the way to Appomattox. In between were memorable combats at South Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Mine Run, the Overland Campaign, and the grueling fighting around Petersburg. None of these battles compared with the "four long hours" of July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg, where the Iron Brigade was all but wrecked.
