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The Battle Rages Higher tells; for the first time; the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry; a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9 percent of the 1860 presidential vote; the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought and died for the Union for over three years; participating in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign; as well as the battles of Perryville; Stones River and Chickamauga. Using primary research; including soldiers' letters and diaries; hundreds of contemporary newspaper reports; official army records; and postwar memoirs; Kirk C. Jenkins vividly brings the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry to life. The book also includes an extensive biographical roster summarizing the service record of each soldier in the thousand-member unit. Kirk C. Jenkins; a descendant of the Fifteenth Kentucky's Captain Smith Bayne; is a partner in a Chicago law firm. Click here for Kirk Jenkins' website and more information about the 15th Kentucky Infantry._x000D_ The Underground Railroad; an often misunderstood antebellum institution; has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white conductors" and black "passengers." Keith P. Griffler takes a new; battlefield-level view of the war against American slavery as he reevaluates one of its front lines: the Ohio River; the longest commercial dividing line between slavery and freedom. In shifting the focus from the much discussed white-led "stations" to the primarily black-led frontline struggle along the Ohio; Griffler reveals for the first time the crucial importance of the freedom movement in the river's port cities and towns. Front Line of Freedom fully examines America's first successful interracial freedom movement; which proved to be as much a struggle to transform the states north of the Ohio as those to its south. In a climate of racial proscription; mob violence; and white hostility; the efforts of Ohio Valley African Americans to establish and maintain communities became inextricably linked to the steady stream of fugitives crossing the region. As Griffler traces the efforts of African Americans to free themselves; Griffler provides a window into the process by which this clandestine network took shape and grew into a powerful force in antebellum America.