Under the Flag of the Nation

by Hopkins, Owen Johnston; Bond, Otto F.

• ISBN13: 9780814207437
• ISBN10: 081420743X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr

Summary

From these diaries and letters of a soldier in the Union Army emerges a revealing portrait of their author, a man caught up in a life-and-death struggle of national import. Compiled from the diaries kept by Owen Johnston Hopkins while he was on duty with the 42nd and 182nd regiments, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and from letters to his family and friends, this book gives a clear picture of the motives, attitudes, and sentiments of a Yankee soldier during the Civil War.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(8)
I. The Cumberland Campaign, 1861-62	11	(34)
II. The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863	45	(48)
III. Keeping Watch on the Mississippi, 1864	93	(96)
IV. Letters from Nashville, 1864-65	189	(82)
V. Epilogue, 1865-1902	271	(25)
Appendixes	296
A. Muster Roll of Company K, Forty-second Regiment, O.V.I.	296	(6)
B. Service Record of Owen J. Hopkins	302	(2)
C. List of Articles Received from Captain Irvin by Owen J. Hopkins, Regimental Quartermaster, One Hundred Eighty-second, O.V.I., Nashville, Tennessee	304	(1)
D. A Private Expense Account, March through July, 1865	305