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

Richard Brady Williams

Format: Trade Paper, 644 pages
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-1932714-38-8
On Sale: Fall 2007

20 photos and illustrations, original maps.
Revised edition with 36 previously unpublished photographs!

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 . . . Read More...