Rally Round the Flag: Uniforms of the Union Volunteers of 1861 by Ron Field This exciting new book by

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Rally Round the Flag: Uniforms of the Union Volunteers of 1861 by Ron Field This exciting new book byTable of Contents This volume examines what the citizen soldiery of the New England States wore when they marched off to save the Union in 1861. An exhaustive search of thousands of newspapers yielded a myriad of reports and personal accounts from soldiers' letters, which together offer a hitherto unpublished view of the stirring events during the first few months of the Civil War. Combined with fascinating detail from numerous diaries and regimental