16th Connecticut Regiment's Final Year of War
Lesley Gordon talked about the stories of common soldiers coming to terms with non-heroic roles. She is the author of A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War, about a defeated regiment, most of whose members spent the final year of the Civil War in the Andersonville prison camp, where many died. “'At Home Once More and Free': The 16th Connecticut’s Final Year of War” was a program of the 35th annual summer conference of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, “The Civil War in 1865.”
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