The Purchase by Blood: Gallery Talk

The Battle of Ball's Bluff on 21 October 1861, was a harrowing baptism by fire for the 20th Massachusetts Infantry, often referred to as the "Harvard Regiment" because of its socially-elite, Harvard-educated officers. Join Stephen T. Riley Librarian Peter Drummey for a discussion of the officers and men of the regiment that also earned the terrible--but accurate--title of the "Bloody 20th" through four years of combat during the Civil War.