In Search of Honor - The Twentieth Maine (Paperback)

<p>By the summer of 1862 the United States was at a crossroads. Rebel forces had stymied</p><p>the army's grand strategy of dividing the Confederacy and bringing the seceded states back</p><p>into the Union. With the federal army advances along the one-thousand-mile front halted</p><p>in Virginia and in the Mississippi River Valley, President Abraham Lincoln was working on</p><p>a radical plan in Washington, D.C. to change the course of the war and reaffirm his people's</p><p>confidence in the nation's hallowed cause. Back in Rockland, Maine, Benjamin Dean</p><p>was slowly recovering from the severe wounds he had received during the Confederate</p><p>charge at Malvern Hill near the James River in Virginia. As he prepared to rejoin the</p><p>Fourth Maine Regiment later that summer, an unexpected offer to join a new Maine Regiment</p><p>presented itself. Benjamin's decision to accept the new assignment would soon reunite</p><p>him with his former college professor and help change the fortunes of the war in favor</p><p>of the Union.</p>