Suggested Readings: Union
UnionThe Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac by Jeffry D. Wert Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant edited by E.B. Long. Fighting Joe Hooker by Walter H. Hebert. Burnside by William Marvel. Winfield Scott Hancock: a Soldier's Life by David Jordan. Sickles the Incredible: a Biography of Daniel Edgar Sickles by W.A. Swanberg. "Happiness Is Not My Companion": The Life of General G. K. Warren by David Jordan. Bayonet Forward by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. |
Did You Know?
The park recently acquired a reproduction Napoleon cannon for use in special "Living History" events. It was fired for the first time on Memorial Day weekend of 2006.