Meet the Author: James Marten

Join us for this virtual event LIVE on Facebook, Tuesday, July 14th at 7 p.m. with author James Marten and a presentation about his book, "The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment" followed by a Q&A.
Reimagining one of the oldest genres of Civil War history, this book engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of a single regiment, the Sixth Wisconsin. One of the core units of the famed Iron Brigade, the Sixth was organized in July 1861 and mustered out in the summer of 1865, playing major roles at Second Manassas, Antietam, and Gettysburg, and in the Overland campaign of 1864. But the regiment’s full history is found in the stories of its men learning to fight and endure far from home amid violence, illness, and death, and in the lives of families that hung on every word in letters and news from the front lines. Those stories also unfolded long after the war’s end, as veterans sought to make sense of their experiences and home communities struggled to care for those who returned with unhealed wounds.
James Marten is professor of history emeritus at Marquette University. He is author or editor of many books, including "Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America."