Colonel Heg and His Boys: A Norwegian Regiment in the American Civil War (Travel & Description Series, 13)

English edition. The many personal accounts from the battlefields, by the soldiers of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment, penned in letters to family and friends, remain a most evocative and moving contribution to Civil War history and valuable primary source material to a wrenching national experience. These intimate narratives relate both the horrors of the conflict and the loyalty of the young men, many of them recent arrivals from Norway, to what they consistently refer to as "our new fatherland". When he produced the book in 1916, Ager wished to convey to a generation of Norwegian-Americans the significant contribution that their recent ancestors had made to American history. This new translation passes those stories along to their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and beyond.