A Hundred Days to Richmond

by Leeke, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780253335371
• ISBN10: 025333537X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war and with victory seemingly within reach for the Northern armies, John Brough, Ohio's energetic wartime governor, offered his state's militia for 100 days of federal service. Ordered east for duty in forts, railways, and prisons, they freed veteran troops to make the last great push against Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy. History soon overtook the Ohioans, however. They fought at Monocacy with Lew Wallace and under the watchful eye of Abraham Lincoln at Fort Stevens. They battled Mosby 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi	(8)
Editor's Note	xix
1 The Boys	1	(25)
2 Muster	26	(13)
3 New Creek	39	(9)
4 Washington	48	(8)
5 Maryland	56	(9)
6 The Shenandoah	65	(7)
7 Cynthiana	72	(12)
8 Petersburg	84	(19)
9 Fourth of July	103	(10)
10 Monocacy	113	(16)
11 Fort Stevens	129	(9)
12 Back to the Valley	138	(17)
13 Prisoners of War	155	(14)
14 The Other Enemy	169	(11)
15 Johnny Comes Marching Home	180	(13)
Appendix A: Mr. Lincoln	193	(3)
Appendix B: Family and Friends	196	(3)
Appendix C: Enlistment and Discharge	199	(2)
Appendix D: Roster of Hundred-Days Regiments	201	(2)
Notes and Sources	203	(52)
Bibliography	255	(6)
Index	261
Illustrations follow page 8.