The Untried Life The Twenty Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War 1st Edition by James Fritsch ISBN 9780804040471, 0804040478

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ISBN 10:  0804040478

ISBN 13: 9780804040471

Author: James T. Fritsch

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. The men who enlisted in the Twenty-Ninth OVI were, according to its lore, handpicked to ensure each was as pure in his antislavery beliefs as its founder. Whether these soldiers would fight harder than other soldiers, and whether the people of their hometowns would remain devoted to the ideals of the regiment, were questions that could only be tested by the experiment of war.

The Untried Life is the story of these men from their very first regimental formation in a county fairground to the devastation of Gettysburg and the march to Atlanta and back again, enduring disease and Confederate prisons. It brings to vivid life the comradeship and loneliness that pervaded their days on the march. Dozens of unforgettable characters emerge, animated by their own letters and diaries: Corporal Nathan Parmenter, whose modest upbringing belies the eloquence of his writings; Colonel Lewis Buckley, one of the Twenty-Ninth’s most charismatic officers; and Chaplain Lyman Ames, whose care of the sick and wounded challenged his spiritual beliefs.

The Untried Life shows how the common soldier lived—his entertainments, methods of cooking, medical treatment, and struggle to maintain family connections—and separates the facts from the mythology created in the decades after the war.

Table of contents: 

PART ONE. “MADLY FROM THEIR SPHERES”: THE LONG ROAD INTO BATTLE

1. “We Are All War”
2. Founders’ Club
3. Camp Giddings: Early Promise
4. Recruiting Wars
5. Camp Giddings: Season of Complaint
6. “The Emblem of Universal Freedom”
7. “At the Threshold of an Untried Life”: Camp Chase, Columbus

PART TWO. WITH THE EASTERN ARMIES

8. A Good “Breaking-In”: Winter on the Upper Potomac
9. The Ball Opens: The Battle of Kernstown
10. Chasing Jackson
11. “Up the River and Back of the Mountains”: The Battle of Port Republic
12. “Rest Now, Rest”: Alexandria, Virginia
13. “South of Anywhere”: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia
14. “In the Hands of Devils”: Prison Stories
15. Narrow Escapes: The Second Bull Run Campaign
16. Restoration: Frederick, Maryland
17. Our Valley Forge: Dumfries, Virginia
18. Saving the Life of the Army: The Battle of Chancellorsville
19. Aquia Creek Interlude
20. Saving the Life of the Nation: The Gettysburg Campaign
21. Journeying Forth
Illustrations

PART THREE. WITH THE WESTERN ARMIES

22. The Battles around Chattanooga
23. Home and Back Again: Bridgeport, Alabama
24. “They Called It a Demonstration”: The Fight for Dug Gap
25. Continuous Battle: The Approach to Atlanta
26. Closing on the Prize: The Fall and Occupation of Atlanta
27. Tearing It Up: The March to the Sea, the Fall of Savannah, and the Carolinas Campaign
28. The Long Way Home

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