compiled by Larry Stevens
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At Death's Door. A Yankee Soldier's Story of Survival in Confederate Captivity by Jasper Newton Hall. Sgt. Co E. 113th OVI. Edited by Richard A. Baumgartner. ? pgs. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 X 9 format, photographs, notes, bibliography and index. Blue Acorn Press. Huntington. West Virginia. 2010 |
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A German Hurrah! Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stängel Letters from the 9th OVI. Ohio's first German regiment. Translated and edited by Joseph R. Reinhart. 416 pgs. Hardbound. Kent State University Press. Kent. Ohio. 2010 |
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Do They Miss Me at Home?: The Civil War Letters of William McKnight, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry William McKnight. 7th OVC. 1832-1864. Editors Donald C. Maness and H. Jason Combs. 320 pgs. Hardcover. Ohio University Press. Athens. Ohio. 2010 |
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Patrick Connor's War. The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition by David E. Wagner. 296 pgs. 24 illustrations. Hardcover. The Arthur H. Clark Company. University of Oklahoma Press. Norman. Oklahoma. 2010. A fine book with a number of references to the 11th OVC. per Steve Ward |
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Company C New Bremen and the Civil War by Mark Bernstein. Concerns the 37th OVI. ? pgs. Hardcover. New Bremen Historic Association. New Bremen. Ohio. 2009 |
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Battery H, First Ohio Light Artillery: The James Barnett Papers; General James Barnett, Captain James Huntington, and Second Lieutenant William Parmellee Jr. by Edward C. Browne Jr. 202 pgs. Paperback, photos, maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Little Miami Publishing Company. Milford. Ohio. 2009 |
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William James Smith's Memoirs of the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Company M. Edited by Robert W. Hatton. 92pgs. Paperback, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Little Miami Publishing Company. Milford. Ohio. 2009 |
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Heroes of the Western Theater. Thirty-Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry by Lois J. Lambert. 559 pgs. Little Miami Publishing Co. Milford. Ohio. 2008 |
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Another Day in Lincoln's Army: The Civil War Journals of Sgt. John T. Booth by Marie Mollohan. 721 pages. Hard and Softcover. iUniverse Inc. 2007 |
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Narratives of the 57th O.V.V.I. Compiled by Robert Van Dorn. Graphic Editor David P. Heiser. 183 pgs. Published by compiler. Findlay. Ohio. 2006 |
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The Civil War Diary of Josiah D. Smith 1861-1865 Federal Army Company G, 66th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry Josiah D. Smith. Wraps. 216 pp. Ports. illus. Randolph County Historical Society. Winchester. Indiana. 2006 |
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The Long Road Home: Ten Thousand Miles Through the Confederacy with the 68th Ohio By Myron B. Loop. Edited by Richard A. Baumgartner. Myron Loop belonged to the 68th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a veteran 17th Corps organization that saw nearly four years' service during the Civil War. Observant and steadfast in keeping a daily wartime diary, Loop relied on it heavily to compose a memoir that was serialized in 21 issues of The National Tribune. The regiment saw service at Fort Donelson, Hatchie River, Raymond, Champion Hill, Vicksburg, Atlanta campaign, March to the Sea, North Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Because an "official" 68th Ohio regimental history never appeared in print, The Long Road Home doubles as a useful substitute. Richard A. Baumgartner has supplemented Loop's narrative with letter and diary excerpts written by 40 other 68th Ohio officers and enlisted men, and added 22 photographs and engravings. Hardcover with dust jacket, acid-free paper, 240 pages. Order from Blue Acorn Press |
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The Fighting McCooks. America's Famous Fighting Family By Charles and Barbara Whalen. During the Civil War, the legendary Fighting McCooks were familiar to most Americans. Time and the tempestuous twentieth century swept Ohio's famous fighting family into a twilight of obscurity. Now the true story of this remarkable Scotch-Irish family is finally seeing the bright light of day. The McCooks gave seventeen men in the fight to save the Union. Four lost their lives. The Family provided three major generals, three brigadier generals, one naval lieutenant, four surgeons, two colonels, one major, one lieutenant, one private, and one chaplain. The McCooks are followed across forty-six battlefields, in eleven states, across land and sea. Their lives are intimately intertwined with the most famous, and infamous, men of the time, including President Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, and General Ulysses S. Grant. 421 pgs. Bib., Index. Order from Westmoreland Press |
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8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry: Gibraltar Brigade. Army of the Potomac By Franklin Sawyer. Sawyer's history of the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was written at the urging of fellow regimental members, and a decade's preparation resulted in the final work, which provides a wealth of detail concerning the regiment's service with the Army of the Potomac. This enhanced Blue Acorn Press reprint is supplemented with several appendices not found in the very rare, original 1881 edition, as well as 30 photographs and portraits of 8th Ohio personnel and their leaders. Hardcover with dust jacket, 290 pages with 30 additional pages of photographs, four appendices, regimental rosters. Order from Blue Acorn Press |
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It Don't Look Right for the Times: The Factual History of the Holmes County Rebellion
By Patrick J. Drouhard. In June, 1863, Governor David Tod sent over 400 troops and one section of artillery to the village of Glenmont (then called Napoleon), Holmes County, to quell an alleged rebellion against the government's Conscription Act of 1863. It was believed that 700 - 1000 men had gathered to prevent its enforcement. Similar activities were occuring in neighboring Coshocton and Knox counties. Pat Drouhard uses primary resources to provide an accurate account of this "rebellion," locally known as Ft. Fizzle. The names of over 80 men indicted for activities in these incidents are included. 39 pgs. $5.00 per copy which includes mailing costs. Order from the Author |
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Civil War Monuments of Ohio
By Harold George. This book tells the history of the Civil War monuments in Ohio. Why were they built and who built them? What did they cost and what materials were used? These questions are answered in this publication. Giving examples of the twelve types of monuments that were erected, the book also includes a "then and now" photograph section. Also in the book is a table that lists the exact location of every civil war monument in Ohio. There are more than 260 of them in Ohio. The book is full color, format 8 1/2" x 11", 88 pages, hardbound. Over 100 full color photographs are included in the book. $10.00, plus $3.00 for shipping & handling. Order from the Author |
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The Ninety-First Ohio Volunteer Infantry: With the Civil War Letters of Lt. Col. Benjamin Franklin Coates
and an Annotated Roster of the Men of Company C
By Lois J. Lambert. This regimental history covers the activities and engagements of the Ninety-first OVI from its organization in July 1862 until the end of the war. Most of the troops were recruited from the counties of Adams, Scioto, Lawrence, Gallia, Jackson, and Pike. Through the letters of Adams County, Ohio, native, Lt. Col. Benjamin Franklin Coates, the author brings to life and chronicles the day-to-day events of the movement of this Southern Ohio regiment. Ms. Lambert also provides a summary of the lives of the men of Company C-an effort of great genealogical value. Seventy-four percent of the men in this company were born somewhere in Ohio. Others listed their places of birth as Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, Vermont, Maryland, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana, as well as Germany, England, Ireland, and France. Hardcover w/dust jacket; 6 x 9 inches; xii, 205 pp; photos, illustrations; sources; index Order from Little Miami Publishing Co. |
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The History of the 6th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, 1861-1865: A Journal of Patriotism, Duty and Bravery
By Richard J. Staats. Readers are invited to take a ride with the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; to relive the thrilling action, disappointments, and their ultimate victory. Through the power of their personal letters and diaries, over one hundred voices tell their stories from beyond the grave. In addition to these moving first-hand accounts, the troopers, their relatives at home, and some of the commanders relate their experiences in a composite journal. It is the author's intent to have the Sixth Ohio troopers tell their own story at or near the time that they experienced it. Four appendices provide additional data: battles and skirmishes, the names of the wounded and captured, the Roll of Honor, and the Sixth Ohio Cavalry roster. An index, seventeen maps, ninety photographs, ten Harper's Weekly illustrations, a post-war epilog, and a bibliography enhance the text. Paper, index, 2 vols, 1038 pp. Order from Heritage Books |
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The Struggle for the Life of the Republic:
A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller
76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Edited by Stewart Bennett and Barbara Tillery. Although a successful businessman in Newark, Ohio, prior to the Civil War, Charles Dana Miller understood the necessity of leaving his business and his home to take part in the "struggle for the life of the republic." Miller served as the regimental adjutant and rose in rank to captain. His experiences in the western theater are accurately and vividly detailed as he describes the hardships and routines of camp life and the battles from Fort Donelson to Jonesboro, providing political insights into the events of the times. The narrative includes descriptions and impressions of U.S. Grant and William T. Sherman and detailed accounts of the Ohio 76th Volunteer Infantry and the Army of the Tennessee's movements. This postwar memoir provides a rare firsthand account of the Battle of Arkansas Post, an obscure engagement with very little documentation from the perspective of an officer. Miller's flair for writing and attention to detail make this memoir an important addition to Civil War history and a welcome primary source of knowledge on the war's western theater. Hardcover 6" by 9" format, 224 pages, 8 photographs, 2 maps, 2 appendixes, bibliography, index and notes. Order from Kent State University Press |
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Yankee Tigers II: Civil War Field Correspondence from the Tiger Regiment of Ohio
Edited by Richard A. Baumgartner. The 125th Ohio was among the most celebrated fighting regiments raised in the Buckeye State during the Civil War. It earned the nickname "Ohio Tigers" in the bloody battle of Chickamauga, and solidified its reputation in the war's western theater at Missionary Ridge, Dandridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain (where the 125th lost nearly a quarter of its effective strength), Peachtree Creek, Jonesboro, Franklin and Nashville. A compilation of letters written by nine different regimental members, Yankee Tigers II is illustrated with 57 photographs (many never before published). It is a companion piece to Yankee Tigers: Through the Civil War with the 125th Ohio, published by Blue Acorn Press in 1992. Softcover, 295 pages, 57 wartime photographs, notes, appendix, bibliography & index. Order from Blue Acorn Press |
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Guarding the Overland Trails:
The Eleventh Ohio Cavalry in the Civil War
By Robert Huhn Jones. The 11th Ohio played a crucial role during the Civil War years on the overland roads. The first battalion sent to Fort Laramie in 1862 had not volunteered to serve out west, though those recruited in 1863 and 1864 knew they were destined for western duty. They were among the last volunteers raised from any state during the Civil War to be discharged in July 1866. The thunder of the greater war drowned out the violent and deadly war in the West along the overland roads. And it has continued to do so. While both the Civil War and nineteenth-century western history have provided fertile fields for historical investigation, few historians have focused on the plight of the overland roads during the Civil War or the impact of the war on the area they crossed. The 11th Ohio had enlisted to fight Confederates. Instead they fought Native Americans, escorted emigrants and mail, and operated, rebuilt, and restrung the telegraph. They built and rebuilt tiny stations and other posts along the roads, died in combat, and froze to death in winter storms. For the most part, these Ohioans were strung out along the roads in small detachments, seldom in company strength, and the regiment never served or fought as one. 368 pages, containing notes, statistics, bibliography, and index. Embellished with nineteen illustrations and six maps. Order from Arthur H. Clark Company |
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Buckeye Blood: Ohio at Gettysburg By Richard A. Baumgartner. New Bicentennial commemorative book chronicles Ohio's participation at Gettysburg. "No one has previously attempted to explore in print the story of Ohio's long overlooked but important role in this tremendous battle," says author-historian Richard A. Baumgartner, whose new book Buckeye Blood: Ohio at Gettysburg is now available. "That story seems best told through the words and photographs of Buckeye soldiers who were there, and is especially appropriate in view of 2003 being Ohio's Bicentennial as well as Gettysburg's 140th battle anniversary year. Buckeye Blood should appeal to casual readers and the scholarly oriented alike," Baumgartner believes. "For 14 decades Gettysburg's battlefield has drawn millions of tourists and history students to it like a magnet. Parts of it were consecrated by the blood of hundreds of Ohioans, and their sacrifice finally is being paid detailed attention." Hardcover with dust jacket, 8-1/2" by 11" format, 254 pages, 244 photographs, engravings and maps, notes, bibliography and index. Order from Blue Acorn Press |
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To Battle for God and the Right: The Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke Edited by Glenn V. Longacre and John E. Haas. Foreword by Peter Cozzens. Emerson Opdycke, a lieutenant with the 41st Ohio Infantry and later a commander of the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, played pivotal roles in some of the major battles of the western theater, including Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge. He won fame at the Battle of Franklin when his brigade saved the Union Army from defeat. Opdycke's wartime letters to his wife, Lucy, offer the immediacy of the action as it unfolded and provide a glimpse into the day-to-day life of a soldier. 352 pages. 16 photographs. Order from University of Illinois Press |
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A Grassroots History of the American Civil War, Volume IV: The Life
and Times of Colonel William Stedman of the 6th Ohio Cavalry by Richard J. Staats. Stedman was a well-known abolitionist who was quite active in the Underground Railroad, and was president of the Western Anti-Slavery Society. He fought in many cavalry battles on the eastern front, and at one time he commanded a brigade of Union Cavalry. His service record was outstanding, and the official records of the war verify his bravery. He also served in the Ohio State Legislature. During the Civil War, the soldiers were free to write to their hometown newspapers, and in some cases their relatives and friends furnished the letters to the editors. A number of those letters appear in this work, to illustrate and fill in the narrative of the 6th Ohioís record under Stedman. Letters between the colonel and his family add warmth to the text. 416 pp., bibl., illus., maps, index, paperback. Order from Heritage Books Inc. |
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The Weary Boys Colonel J. Warren Keifer and the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Thomas E. Pope. Using primary sources such as journals and letters, Pope reconsiders the men of the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and their contribution to the Army of the Potomac. Order from Kent State University Press |
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The Invincibles. The Story of the Fourth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry 1861-1865 by Nancy Pape-Findley. 416 pages. Hard-cover. Indexed. 41 maps and 230 photographs. Incorporates the original regimental history from 1912. Order from Blood Road Publishing |
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Men of the 9th Ohio. An Illustrated History of the 9th Ohio Independent
Battery of Light Artillery by Harold A. George. Civil War history 1861-1865; post war history 1866-1936; and reenactment history 1960 to present. 176 pgs. $10.00 plus $2.00 shipping. Order from the Author |
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Sacrifice at Chickamauga. A History of the 89th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment by Bryan P. Weaver with H. Lee Fenner. This book is an attempt to portray the events of 1001 men from southwest Ohio during the Civil War. You will follow several soldiers of all ranks through the war in a day-by-day diary format. The relatively inexperienced regiment met its first combat in the infamous battle of Chickamauga - a Union defeat. In a cruel twist of fate, the 89th was abandoned on Horseshoe Ridge, where they fought valiantly until their ammunition was exhausted. Along with parts of three regiments, the 89th Ohio was captured. Very few escaped - only 75 men reported to duty the next day. After Chickamauga, the story takes two roads. One road was traveled by an augmented regiment that helped capture Atlanta, went with General Sherman to the sea, and eventually journeyed to Washington, DC, for the Grand Review. Those men captured at Chickamauga were sent down a heart breaking road to several Confederate prisons: Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury and the notorious Andersonville prison. Order from The Authors |
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Too Young To Die: Boy Soldiers of the Union Army 1861 - 1865 By Dennis Keesee. Drawing on extensive primary research, Too Young to Die brings to life hundreds of the Union Army's most youthful soldiers in enlightening and vivid fashion. The author blends a wide range of narratives and anecdotes written by or about Union boy soldiers with 213 photographs and illustrations. Many of these images are published here for the first time. Ohio readers will find the book interesting as Keesee shares many fine images and stories concerning the Ohio boy soldiers. 295 pgs. Order from Blue Acorn Press |
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Headquarters in the Brush. Blazer's Independent Union Scouts By Darl L. Stephenson. In the fall of 1863, Union Colonel Carr B. White formed a group of scouts and sharpshooters, headed by Capt. Richard Blazer of the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to fight the bushwhackers in the mountains of West Virginia. The unit was so successful that Gen. George Crook mounted the group in 1864 to combat rebel guerrillas, make deep raids, and act as the front and rear guard of the army, giving them the most dangerous of missions. In the Shenandoah Valley, General Philip Sheridan gave them the mandate to take on the renowned Confederate partisan John S. Mosby and his rangers. Equipped with advanced Spencer repeating rifles, they took the war to Mosbyís Rangers as a regular cavalry could not do. Many soldiers from the following Ohio regiments were detailed to Blazer's Scouts: 2nd West Virginia Cavalry, 12th, 23rd, 34th, 36th, and 91st Ohio Infantries. 352 pgs. 70 illustrations. Ohio University Press. Order from Amazon.com |
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The Longest Raid of the Civil War By Lester V. Horwitz. 456 pgs. "The Rebels are coming!" That was the cry in July 1863 when General John Hunt Morgan and his guerrilla force of 2,500 Confederate cavalry terrorized towns and farms in Ohio and Indiana. Best known as Morganís Raid, it covered over 1,000 miles through Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. This is the true story about Morganís most famous raid. Readers will ride along with the cavalry on this treacherous journey of high adventure. Many of these stories have never been published before about one of the Southís most dashing, daring and dynamic cavalry leaders -- and the men who were willing to follow him into hell. After five years of writing and fifteen years of research, Lester Horwitz chronicles the first book-length account of this legendary raid in The Longest Raid of the Civil War. Order from Farmcourt Publishing |
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Major McKinley. William McKinley and the Civil War By William H. Armstrong. 191 pgs. Major McKinley is the first complete account of the Civil War service of President William McKinley, the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House and the only one who served in the ranks. McKinley enlisted as a private in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was the regiment's commissary sergeant when his bravery at the battle of Antietam led to a commission and an assignment to Rutherford B. Hayes military staff. This book presents a new picture of McKinley as a soldier and provides a fresh appreciation of his later life as a veteran in politics. Order from Kent State University Press |
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