Chicago's Battery Boys
The Chicago Mercantile Battery in the Civil War's Western Theater

Richard Brady Williams

Format: Hardcover, 636 pages
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 1-932714-06-5
On Sale: Fall 2005

The celebrated Chicago Mercantile Battery was organized by the Mercantile Association, a group of prominent Chicago merchants, and mustered into service in August of 1862. The Chicagoans went on to serve in some of the Western Theater’s most important campaigns until the war ended in the spring of 1865. Read More...