Ebook: General Lee's immortals: the battles and campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

"I do not see how the union is to be saved": Lawrence O'Bryan Branch -- "We are drilling very hard every day": the formation of Branch's Brigade -- "Boys, you have stern work before you": the Battle of Hanover Court House -- "Literally shot to pieces ": the Seven Days Campaign -- "I fear if we get under Jackson we will get hard times": Cedar Run-Second Manassas -- "The brave, lamented General Branch": Harpers Ferry-Antietam-Shepherdstown -- "Oh! How fearful the scenes around a 'field hospital'": brigade medical care -- "I doo not like to beare Old Abe's mark": the Fredericksburg Campaign -- "It is so terrible dull here": daily camp life -- "I reckon the Devil himself would have run with Jackson in his rear": the Chancellorsville Campaign -- "With waving banners pressing into the very jaws of death": the Gettysburg Campaign -- "Perhaps we are to be shot or hung": the plight of the prisoner -- "Will amount to but little": the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns -- "Mahone took his cussing": the Overland Campaign -- "I have to be shot to death": military discipline -- "The canons are all rouring like if they were going to tair up evry thing": the Petersburg Campaign -- "Furled their bullet ridden battle flags": to Appomattox -- Epilogue: "one of the finest fighting records": the Branch-Lane Brigade's place in history.