Pittsburgh's Forgotten Civil War Regiment: A History of the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry & the Men who Served with Distinction (Ernest D. Spisak - UA) school and Organization

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was also one of the most colorful and charismatic characters of the Civil War and the antebellum Old South

Three appendices address the nature of Buford’s defense at Gettysburg

but those back stories are often as fascinating as the story of the battle itself

the Battle of South Mountain (Fox’s Gap

Pittsburgh's Forgotten Civil War Regiment: A History of the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry & the Men who Served with Distinction (Ernest D. Spisak - UA) school and OrganizationPittsburgh's Forgotten Civil War Regiment by Ernest D Spisak "Treason!" Sam Black, the Mexican War veteran they called the Bengal Tiger, fired up the crowd in Pittsburghs city hall that spring day in 1861 following the rebel attack on Fort Sumter. Black would be killed, leading his men in battle early in the war. But the regiment he recruited, the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, would fight on through many of the major battles of the Civil War,