The Twentieth Maine
Subtitle: a volunteer regiment in the Civil War
By: by John J. Pullen ; with an introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern.
Series: Premier Civil War Classics
Publisher: Fawcett Publications
Published: June 1962
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
Copyright date: © 1962, Fawcett Publications, Inc. © 1957 by John J. Pullen
Subjects: United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- Maine Infantry -- 20th.
First sentence: When, in August of 1862, Colonel Adelbert Ames went to Portland, Maine, to take command of a new volunteer infantry regiment, he was a little more than fourteen months out of West Point and a year out of the first battle of Bull Run, where he had recieved a painful wound.
Table of contents: label: 1.
title: How D'Ye Do, Colonel
pagenum: 17; label: 2.
title: Dan, Dan, Dan, Butterfield, Butterfield
pagenum: 33; label: 3.
title: Never and Forever
pagenum: 55; label: 4.
title: Stuck in the Mud
pagenum: 74; label: 5.
title: Sunstroke, Sore Feet and Stuart
pagenum: 94; label: 6.
title: Unhooked, Unhinged, and Almost Undone
pagenum: 109; label: 7.
title: A Hard Day for Mother
pagenum: 120; label: 8.
title: So Nobly Advanced
pagenum: 139; label: 9.
title: Living in Awful Times
pagenum: 153; label: 10.
title: River of No-Return
pagenum: 180; label: 11.
title: On the Grinding Wheel
pagenum: 203; label: 12.
title: Woodchuck Warfare
pagenum: 216; label: 13.
title: The Winds of March
pagenum: 241; label: 14.
title: Hungry Victory
pagenum: 262; label: 15.
title: The Last Review
pagenum: 279; label: 16.
title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 293; label: 17.
title: Bibliography
pagenum: 297; label: 18.
title: Notes
pagenum: 303; label: 19.
title: Index
pagenum: 323