Rally Round the Flag—Uniforms of the Union Volunteers of 1861 Binding:Hardback and its history provides a

and its history provides a fascinating insight into our cultural heritage

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and humorous tidbits gathered by photographer Jim O'Rear during his travels across the "Volunteer State

It traces their roots from our own Civil War to assuming the stature of the world’s super power

is the challenge of transforming a block of wood into a boot or shoe

Rally Round the Flag—Uniforms of the Union Volunteers of 1861 Binding:Hardback and its history provides aThis 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of newspapers yielded a myriad of reports and personal accounts from soldiers letters, which together offer a hitherto unpublished view of the stirring events during the first few months of the Civil War.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 histories, the