The Civil War Letters of Colonel Hans Christian Heg

Northfield, Minnesota, Norwegian-American Historical Association , published, 1936. This is the 2003 reprint of the original 1936 publication. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid book with faint rubbing to edges, hinged red-orange wrappers with a couple of scrapes to lower end of spine. Tight and solid binding. Frontispiece: Hans C.Heg. b/w illustrations throughout. Preface. Index. Biographical Essay of Hans Christian Heg, fro1829-1863, beginning in south-eastern Norway and ending on the fields of Chickamauga in northern Georgia where he was killed. He led a regiment of Scandinavian soldiers from Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota to the battlefields of the South in the Civil War. The letters that he wrote home to his wife and children have been preserved and published here for the first time. 8vo. xii + 260 pages. 1936, Norwegian-American Historical Association , Northfield, Minnesota.