We Fought at Gettysburg

“A seminal and inherently fascinating contribution to the growing library of the American Civil War studies and histories… extraordinary and unreservedly recommended.” ~Midwest Book Review

"Nothing epitomized how Civil War soldiers carried their regimental esprit de corps into the postwar years like the publication of a unit history. In the case of the 17th Connecticut Infantry, former private William Warren assumed the role of regimental historian and amassed a great body of material to write a book. Although his book was never published, Warren’s thirteen-volume manuscript was preserved at the Bridgeport History Center. Now, Carolyn Ivanoff has used the Warren materials and others to present an in-depth account of the 17th’s part in the campaign and battle of Gettysburg. Much of it is told in the soldiers’ own words, drawn from the Warren archives. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of images of the soldiers and the places where they fought and suffered, We Fought at Gettysburg is an astonishingly comprehensive examination of one regiment’s part in the war’s greatest battle." ~Mark H. Dunkelman, author of Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment

“Carolyn Ivanoff (in her very first book!) has given military buffs, true Civil War aficionados, a very, very special must-own Spring-reading gift. Highly, highly recommended.” ~ARGunners.com

"Carolyn Ivanoff’s We Fought at Gettysburg is a valuable addition to the library of any aficionado of the great 1863 battle or of Connecticut troops in the American Civil War. Having painstakingly compiled numerous firsthand accounts by the soldiers of the “17th Wooden Nutmeg”, she has allowed the men to tell their stories themselves, with the whole woven together by an effective narrative. Eleventh Corps unit histories and published memoirs being relatively rare, Ivanoff’s book fills a gap in the scholarship of this famous, controversial fighting force, and I strongly recommend it." ~Stuart R Dempsey, Gettysburg Battlefield Guide