By Mary Genevie Green Brainard. New Material and Preface by Patrick A. Schroeder. Foreword by Brian C. Pohanka. No Northern state provided more men for the Union war effort than New York. In the early autumn of 1862, with the Federal armies hard-pressed by a determined foe, and ranks depleted by battle and disease, the Empire State answered the call for volunteers. The Fifth Oneida Regiment the 146th New York Volunteer Infantry was conceived with a sense of patriotic obligation. War was a grim business - casualty lists from the recent bloodbath at Antietam attested to that. With the unfamiliar heft knapsack and musket, the blue clad men of the 146th departed for the front as so many thousands had before them. They were fortunate to learn the profession of arms under the stern tutelage of a veteran West Pointer, Colonel Kenner Garrard. 6x9 768 pages Over 200 photos hardcover