Format:
1 online resource (539 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780804040471
Content:
Told in unflinching detail, this is the story of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Giddings Regiment or the Abolition Regiment, after its founder, radical abolitionist Congressman J. R. Giddings.
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part I: "Madly from Their Spheres": The Long Road into Battle -- 1. "We Are All War" -- 2. Founders' Club -- 3. Camp Giddings -- 4. Recruiting Wars -- 5. Camp Giddings -- 6. "The Emblem of Universal Freedom" -- 7. "At the Threshold of an Untried Life" -- Part II: With the Eastern Armies -- 8. A Good "Breaking-In" -- 9. The Ball Opens -- 10. Chasing Jackson -- 11. "Up the River and Back of the Mountains" -- 12. "Rest Now, Rest " -- 13. "South of Anywhere" -- 14. "In the Hands of Devils" -- 15. Narrow Escapes -- 16. Restoration -- 17. Our Valley Forge -- 18. Saving the Life of the Army -- 19. Aquia Creek Interlude -- 20. Saving the Life of the Nation -- 21. Journeying Forth -- Gallery of illustrations -- Part III: With the Western Armies -- 22. The Battles around Chattanooga -- 23. Home and Back Again -- 24. "They Called It a Demonstration" -- 25. Continuous Battle -- 26. Closing on the Prize -- 27. Tearing It Up -- 28. The Long Way Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Index -- General Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804011396
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804011396
Language:
English