Download or read book 24th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War written by William J. K. Beaudot and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formed in the summer of 1862, the 24th Wisconsin Infantry participated in many major battles of the Western theater, earning a reputation as a brave, hard-fighting unit. Unlike other unit histories, this book makes no attempt, as the author freely admits, to provide "an objective history" of the regiment. Rather, the book digs deeper, following the personal stories of the soldiers themselves, providing hundreds of individual vignettes that, taken together, paint a vivid picture of the life of a Union soldier.