New book published by The University Press of Kentucky THE BATTLE RAGES HIGHER: The Union's Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry -- By Kirk C. Jenkins (1)(Published September 2003)
The Battle Rages Higher the history of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, tells, for the first time, the story of 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. (Book description from University Press of Kentucky's website, www.kentuckypress.com)

Comments from Don Rightmyer:

"This is one of the best Kentucky Civil War unit histories ever published. Its value for both Civil War history and Kentucky Civil War genealogy is fantastic. Kirk Jenkins has done an amazing job of researching this Kentucky Union infantry regiment and he has done an excellent job of writing it in a way that takes you along with the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky. His Biographical Roster is one of the best I've ever seen."

Comments from new review of the book published in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, October 2004:
From a dramatic standpoint, the highlights of the book are its battle scenes.
Very well written and widely researched work
The result is a new kind of regimental history that could well serve as a model for the genre in the twenty-first century!
Jenkins is sensitive to the interaction of politics and military events in a way that many writers of military history are not
Jenkins is not squeamish about confronting evidence of proslavery sentiment in the unit...

Kirk Jenkins' official Fifteenth Kentucky book website