The 116th Pennsylvania was no ordinary regiment. For two hard years it fought with Thomas Meagher's celebrated Irish Brigade of the Army of the Potomac. Though only partially Irish itself, the 116th won an honored place in this famous unit's history by its faithful service in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war. The mutual respect between the Irish and the 116th was certainly founded on their shared bravery and suffering during the campaigns from Fredericksburg to Petersburg, but it no doubt also owed something to the remarkable Irish colonel, St. Clair Mulholland, who commanded the 116th through most of its battles. Mulholland was a soldier's soldier: disciplined, courageous, caring, and dedicated to the men of his regiment. Wounded four times (once, it was thought, mortally), he time and again rose from his hospital bed to return to command. Winner of the congressional Medal of Honor for his actions at Chancellorsville, he was later brevetted brigadier general and major general for service in the Wilderness and at Petersburg.

Originally published in 1898, this is the account and history of the 61st Georgia Infantry by one of it's privates.

A Look Inside The trials & tribulations of one of the Civil War's most battle-tested units.

When it first appeared in 1981, this chronicle of one of the North's great army units was called by "Civil War Times Illustrated" "The greatest of all regimental histories. It is for any Civil War reader interested in the simple truth." Gallant Fourteenth remains a standard classic as one of the first modern-day regimental histories.