Full Duty: Vermonters in the Civil War (Revised)

Coffin's exciting saga, written with the immediacy of a combat correspondent, dramatizes why and how a small, poor, remote Northern state responded so quickly and enthusiastically to President Lincoln's first call to arms in 1861. From the defense of Washington and the siege of Richmond, from Big Bethel to Cedar Creek, we observe the bravery and exploits of Vermont's farm-bred troops who turned the tide in pivotal battles to preserve the Union. More than 10 percent of Vermont's entire population-34,238 Green Mountain men and boys-served in the war, sustaining one of the largest per capital losses incurred by a Northern state.

Author: Howard Coffin
Publisher: Countryman Press
Published: 11/01/1995
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 10.29h x 6.37w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780881503494

About the Author
Coffin, Howard: - Howard Coffin, former press secretary to U.S. senator Jim Jeffords, is the author of The Battered Stars, Full Duty, Guns Over the Champlain Valley, and Nine Months to Gettysburg. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont.