Brothers Gone Before: A Civil War Story - Paperback

by Kent Gramm (Author)

The values of two young brothers raised in a religious household are affirmed and destroyed by combat in the Civil War's most famous unit, the Iron Brigade. Describing the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness in letters and frank journal entries, each of the boys become men for better and for worse. At the fiftieth reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg, the surviving brother bitterly sums up the meaning of the war and bequeaths its mixed results to our generation.

Author Biography

Kent Gramm has taught English at Wheaton College (Illinois) and writing, American literature, and Civil War era studies at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead; November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg; Sharpsburg: A Civil War Narrative; Nature's Bible; Fishing for Eternity: Poems from the River of Life; and other books on history and religion.