The 16th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Revised and Updated

“Author Kim Crawford has utilized a large selection of primary and secondary sources to provide an outstanding narrative that relates the untold Civil War story of the 16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The author’s real contribution to the history of the 16th Michigan is not the chronological description of their involvement in the war, which is presented in a fine manner, but rather the detailed minutiae of life in the regiment, which really provides great interest and flavor to the book. Information gathered from unpublished diaries, correspondence, period newspapers, and military service records provides a lively regimental history that is infused with soldiers’ observations and anecdotes as well as their perspectives on issues of a military, political, and social nature. Additionally, copious endnotes and a solid bibliography attest to the scholarship that the author brings to this composition."

—David D. Finney Jr., author of Remembering Michigan’s Civil War Soldiers

"The inside story of the 16th Michigan Infantry, a hard-fighting, reliable outfit that saw more than its fair share of action with the army of the Potomac’s Fifth Corps from the Virginia Peninsula to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The primary source accounts are woven masterfully together by Kim Crawford, which brings these stalwart Michigan soldiers to life."

—Patrick A. Schroeder, historian, and author of We Came to Fight: The History of the 5th New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry, Duryée’s Zouaves (1863–1865)