The Last Full Measure

by Moe, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780873514064
• ISBN10: 0873514068
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr

Summary

Since its publication, Richard Moe's 'The Last Full Measure' has garnered a reputation as one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War and the definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment. Moe's chronicle of the First Minnesota has received wide acclaim from reviewers and historians alike. As James MacGregor Burns notes in his foreword to the book, 'Like Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' this work sticks close to the men in battle, and hence, like Tolstoy, the author keeps close to the human size of war.' Ken Burns, co-producer of the acclaimed PBS documentary 'The Civil War' notes that 'Richard Moe, in this wonderfully told regimental history, manages to rescue that which Civil War studies so often neglects: the people.'

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
James MacGregor Burns
Preface	x
Acknowledgments	xv
Fort Snelling	1	(33)
Bull Run	34	(31)
Edwards' Ferry	65	(55)
The Peninsula	120	(52)
Antietam	172	(25)
Fredericksburg	197	(36)
Chancellorsville	233	(25)
Gettysburg	258	(40)
Epilogue	298	(17)
Notes	315	(20)
Bibliography	335	(4)
Index	339