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The untried life : the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War /
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, handp...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press,
©2012.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 501 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0804040478 9780804040471 |