Original Iron Brigade

Alan Nolan''s 1961 Iron Brigade, the classic study of Brigadier General John Gibbon''s Black Hat Brigade composed of the 19th Indiana, the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and the 24th Michigan, drew public attention to the superior unit during the Civil War Centennial. Since then, much has been written about Gibbon''s Iron Brigade but nothing has published on the original Iron Brigade from which Gibbo...