Wisconsin In The Civil War: The Home Front And The Battle Front, 1861-1865

This long-awaited book will appeal to general readers as well as students, researchers, and Civil War buffs. Well-written and engaging, it presents a vivid chronological narrative of Wisconsin's role in a pivotal event in U.S. history, the period from the presidential election of 1860 to the end of the fighting and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in the spring of 1865.

Klement greatly expanded his acclaimed 1962 booklet on this subject, adding new material on each of Wisconsin's fifty-three infantry regiments, political and constitutional issues, soldiers' voting, women and the war, and Wisconsin's African-American soldiers. This large-format book is illustrated with maps, archival photos, historic engravings of battlefield views, and other period illustrations.