About this book
Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry Roster and Record by Andrew Brown brings to life the names, ranks, and stories of the men who served in one of Illinois’s Civil War units, compiled from the 1893 reunion and published in 1894. This careful roster and record blends military history and local biography, offering service dates, enlistment places, battlefield assignments, promotions, wounds, resignations, and veteran postwar lives for Company K of the 20th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
Part primary source and part regimental chronicle, the book situates the company within the wider Civil War campaigns—Missouri actions, Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing—and provides intimate sketches of officers and enlisted men, from captains and surgeons to orderlies. Readers will find a valuable resource for genealogy, military research, and social history, as the compiler explains his work’s origins at the veterans’ reunion and preserves the voices of those who fought to preserve the Union.
Ideal for Civil War enthusiasts, military history listeners, genealogists tracing Illinois ancestors, and local historians, this history audiobook is a rich, authoritative reference that reveals the human details behind unit rosters and battlefield reports.
