Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh": The Campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment

by Joseph Gitcs and Joseph Gibbs

Hailing from the Keystone State's rugged western counties, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves was one of the Civil War's most heavily engaged units. Of more than 2,100 regiments raised by the North, it suffered the eighth highest percentage of battle deaths, earning it the gruesome sobriquet "Bloody Eleventh."

Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh" tells the story of this often-overlooked element of the Army of the Potomac from before...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271058382
• ISBN13: 9780271058382
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"