A Hundred Days to Richmond: Ohio's "Hundred Days" Men in the Civil War - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 025333537X ISBN 13: 9780253335371

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 1999

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... an interesting and readable account of those whose service to the Blue was brief but in some cases dangerous and exciting." — The Civil War News

This useful and entertaining book presents, mainly in the words of the participants, the experience of the 35,000 Ohioans who served in 100-day regiments during the summer of 1864." —Choice

Drawn from Civil War diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts, A Hundred Days to Richmond tells for the first time the complete story of Ohio's "100-day men," state militia troops offered for Union service for 100 days. Their tales—unique and memorable, and unmistakably American—reflect the hope, fear, determination, horror, humor, and grit of the Civil War.

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L'autore:

Jim Leeke has worked as a reporter in Guam, Michigan, Boston and San Francisco and is now a freelance writer and editor in Worthington, Ohio. His first book was Sudden Ice, a mystery. He is also the editor of Smoke, Sound & Fury: The Civil War Memoirs of Major-General Lew Wallace, W.S. Volunteers.

Product Description:

In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war, victory seemed within reach for the Northern armies. John Brought, Ohio's energetic wartime governor, offered his state's militia for 100 days of federal service. These men were ordered east for duty in forts, railways and prisons, where they freed veteran troops for the last great push against Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy. History soon overtook the Ohioans, however. They fought at Monacan, and under the watchful eye of Abraham Lincoln at Fort Stevens. They battled Mosey and other feared southern guerrillas in Virginia and West Virginia. They fell to John Hunt Morgan's cavalry in Kentucky. They toiled and fought against thunderous Petersburg.Drawn from Civil War diaries, letters and eyewitness accounts, "A Hundred Days to Richmond" tells the complete story of Ohio's 100-day men for the first time. Their individual tales are unique and memorable. Readers hear from not only generals and colonels, but also from the ranks - from a schoolteacher who taught himself artillery, a farmer turned drummer, college students who swapped books for muskets. Many disliked leaving their families, businesses and farms, but they shouldered their arms and went anyway, hoping to bring an end to the war. Some found themselves battling not only tough rebel enemies, but also heat and disease, tornadoes and cannon fire, and the horrifying conditions in southern prisons. "A Hundred Days to Richmond" contains the contradictory hope, fear, determination, horror, humour and grit that were the Civil War. Its voices are uniquely, unmistakably American.

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• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 025333537X
• ISBN 13: 9780253335371
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: Leeke Jim