If I Have Got to Go and Fight, I Am Willing: A Union Regiment Forged in the Pe - Edwin P. Rutan II
Taking a broad view of the Union soldiers' experience in the Petersburg campaign, \If I Have Got to Go and Fight, I Am Willing\ covers in depth not just the battles, but also subjects such as motivations for enlistment, ties with home, medical care, religious faith, citizen-soldiers, the 1864 election, prisoners of war, desertion, the post-war lives of the soldiers, and even the weather. A fighting regiment, the 179th New York Volunteers served in the Petersburg campaign from start to finish. The..