Copies of this 262 page hardcover book, which features Tom Redman's 15th Wisconsin at Chickamauga t-shirt artwork on its cover, are now available. When Ager supervised a Wisconsin exhibit for Norway's 1914 Centennial Exhibition, he brought along much of that material, including the regiment's battle-torn banner. Two years later, Ager published his book on the Fifteenth Wisconsin.
Gutter offers letters, photos, first-hand accounts and battlefield maps.
Ager used the book as part of his fund drive for a statue of Heg, which was raised in 1925 at the state capitol in Madison. And much of the historical material found its way into another of Ager's books, Sons of the Old Country . In it, the protagonist joins the Fifteenth Wisconsin, fights, suffers wounds and is incarcerated in the Andersonville prison camp. The Fifteenth Wisconsin's admirers are legion.