The Long Road Home: Ten Thousand Miles Through the Confederacy With the 68th Ohio

by Loop, Myron B.; Baumgartner, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9781885033345
• ISBN10: 1885033346
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-30
• Publisher: Blue Acorn Pr

Summary

Illustrated Civil War memoir of an Ohio infantry private, supplemented with letter and diary excerpts from 40 additional officers and enlisted men belonging to the author's regiment.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(2)
Abbreviations	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(13)
`Our hopes and fears, our highly-wrought excitement'	24	(14)
`A grabbing for guns and rubbing of eyes'	38	(26)
`Louisiana mud that stuck closer than a poor relation'	64	(14)
`How varied are the charms of military glory'	78	(15)
`A liberal sprinkling of rebel shot and shell'	93	(23)
`Adopting their old rule of skedaddling'	116	(13)
`Legitimate plunder for our hungry boys'	129	(7)
`Hastening on to the end of their earthly existence'	136	(11)
`Behind those works was a saucy enemy'	147	(8)
`The tidal wave of war beat with wildest fury'	155	(13)
`Amply repaid for the hardships of a long campaign'	168	(10)
`The liveliest lot of Yankees the world ever heard of'	178	(13)
`A seven weeks' tramp through swamps and tar camps'	191	(18)
`Over all obstacles to this joyful end'	209	(14)
Bibliography	223	(4)
Index	227