“Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine”

With a new preface and updated maps and illustrations, Stand Firm Ye Boys of Maine offers a compelling account of one of the most crucial small engagements of the Civil War. This powerfully narrated history tells the story of the 20th Maine Regiment, the soldiers who won the battle of Little Round Top. The culmination of years of detailed research, the book uses more than seventy first-hand accounts to bring the personal experiences of the soldiers to life, relating the story from both sides.

Thomas Desjardin was born and raised in Maine and did his doctoral work in American History at the University of Maine. He has worked as an interpreter, giving programs on the Gettysburg battlefield for the National Park Service. The author of These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory and Through A Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775, he is working on a TV documentary on Joshua Chamberlain.