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Last to Join the Fight: The 66th Georgia Infantry. By Daniel Cone. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2014. Pp. [xx], 209. $29.00, ISBN 978-088146-475-7.)
Formed in 1863, the Sixty-sixth Georgia Infantry was the last Confederate infantry regiment raised by the state of Georgia. Its officers were largely inexperienced, and it never achieved any notable battlefield successes. At war's end its members left few accounts of their service. In Last to Join the Fight: The 66th Georgia Infantry, Daniel Cone has written a history of this unremarkable regiment to address a variety of questions concerning soldiers who enlisted later in the war: "What kinds of men waited until 1863 to serve in the 66th and other units of the Confederate Army, and what were the prewar backgrounds of men who were, at...