Howard Coffin
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Coffin's exciting saga, written with the immediacy of a combat correspondent, dramatizes why and how a small, poor, remote Northern state responded so quickly and enthusiastically to President Lincoln's first call to arms in 1861.
From the defense of Washington and the siege of Richmond, from Big Bethel to Cedar Creek, we observe the bravery and exploits of Vermont's farm-bred troops who turned the tide in pivotal battles to preserve the Union. More...
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"In his new work, years in the making, historian Howard Coffin takes readers through every town in the Green Mountain State as he documents some 2,500 extant sites that were in some way touched by the Civil War. They are everywhere--on back roads, in busy downtowns, on islands, in remote woods, and in farm fields, on village greens, college campuses, and even on mountaintops."--Dust jacket.