The battle rages higher : the Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry / Kirk C. Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Kirk C., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 15th (1861-1865).

United States.

History.

Regimental histories.

Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.

Kentucky.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.

Physical Description:

xix, 452 pages : maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2003]

Summary:

The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9 percent of the 1860 presidential vote, the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought and died for the Union for over three years, participating in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign as well as the battles of Perryville, Stones River, and Chickamauga. Using primary research, including soldiers' letters and diaries, hundreds of contemporary newspaper reports, official army records, and postwar memoirs, Kirk C. Jenkins vividly brings the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry to life. The book also includes an extensive biographical roster summarizing the service record of each soldier in the thousand-member unit.

Contents:

Raising the regiment

Missed opportunities

Seeing the elephant

The orphan regiment

The fight in the Cedars

Flanking Bragg

Riot on the river of death

Holding Chattanooga

Fighting Kentuckians all the time

Coming home

Epilogue : starting over.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-417) and index.

ISBN:

0813122813

OCLC:

52090640