The Fourth Regiment of Minnesota Infantry witnessed much of the action in the Civil ... federal service between October and December. In November John Sanborn was named as the regiment’s colonel.

Each colonel is given a brief biography, outlining his background, education, and civil occupation, his military career, post-war life, and burial site, with references. The entries are frequently ...

Robert Gould Shaw, the commanding officer of the North's first all-black regiment during the Civil War ... and it's exactly what a colonel would carry in a war," Bentley said.

Then we get short profiles of each colonel, varying in length based on available sources; many of these men left virtually no paper trail. Hunt almost always provides an image of each man, some ...