Blue-Collar Reserves in Dusty Blue Jackets
by
Valgene L. Dunham
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
At the beginning of October 1864, the only equipment most Union soldiers near Petersburg, Virginia, needed was a shovel--including Gen. Edgar Gregorys new reserve brigade, which was digging trenches around the besieged city.
Most of the brigades volunteer members from New York had never fired...