My brave boys
Subtitle: to war with Colonel Cross and the Fighting Fifth
By: Mike Pride and Mark Travis ; with a foreword by Walter Holden.
Contributors: Travis, Mark, 1957-
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781584650751
Subjects: Cross, Edward Ephraim, 1832-1863; United States. Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865); New Hampshire -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
Description: "Two thousand regiments fought in Union armies during the Civil War. None - not one - suffered more deaths in battle than the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers. At the center of this regiment's searing experience is Colonel Edward Cross, a journalist and adventurer who infused the Fifth with his formidable personality. Concord Monitor editors Mike Pride and Mark Travis spent eight years digging for the story of Cross and his men in letters, diaries, memoirs, official records, and newspaper accounts.

The result is a military history unfolded in human terms, as the men themselves experienced it."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Walter Holden; title: The Fighting Fifth; title: Cross; title: Coming together; title: Winter's trials; title: On to Richmond; title: Retreat; title: "Richardson's foot cavalry"; title: Antietam; title: Autumn tempest; title: Fredericksburg; title: "Camp near Falmouth"; title: Chancellorsville; title: Gettysburg; title: Before and after