The ‘Glorious Old Third’: The History of the Third Michigan Infantry, 1855-1927 by Steve Soper is now available as an ebook.

Based on more than 18 years of research and thousands of pages of primary and contemporary source materials, this is the first exhaustive history of the first regiment to leave Grand Rapids, Michigan in June of 1861 for the war in Virginia.

This newly updated regimental history is nearly 800 pages long with more than two dozen appendices, an extensive bibliography and exhaustive surname index.

Download a free copy of the title page and Table of Contents.

Available in convenient electronic PDF form on a CD-ROM. The PDF will allow you to read it on your computer or print it out at your leisure. You must have Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view these files.