Speaker: James Marten

James Marten engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of the Sixth Wisconsin, one of the core units of the famed Iron Brigade. Organized in July 1861 and mustered out in the summer of 1865, the 6th played major roles at Second Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, and in the Overland campaign of 1864. But the regiment’s full history is found in the stories of its men learning to fight and endure far from home amid violence, illness, and death. It is also told through the lives of families that hung on every word in letters and news from the front lines. Those stories also unfolded long after the war’s end, as veterans sought to make sense of their experiences and home communities struggled to care for those who returned with unhealed wounds.

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