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Review Notices
New or Recent books on the Civil War
The Struggle for the Life of the Republic
A Civil War Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Dana Miller, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Edited by Stewart Bennett and Barbara Tillery
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(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 301. Illustrations, map, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $34.00.)
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The narrative of Charles Dana Miller (1836–1898), written sometime between May 1869 and 1881, is a richly detailed memoir by a first sergeant (later first lieutenant) of the 76th Ohio Volunteer Regiment, Company C. Miller served from October 1861 through November 1864, seeing action at Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Atlanta, among other battles. Miller remained involved in veteran's societies throughout the remainder of his life, perhaps prompting him to pen his own reminiscences. Bennett and Tillery, following an earlier transcription of the manuscript, break the narrative into chapters with a brief summary of contents at the beginning of each.
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"The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail"
The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins, Jr., a Union
Quartermaster
By Lenette S. Taylor
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(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 264. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)
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This book draws attention to quartermasters, heretofore neglected officers in Civil War studies. Descendants of Captain Simon Perkins, Jr., donated eight crates containing 20,000 of his quartermaster-related documents to the Summit County (Ohio) Historical Society, and Taylor has used them to draw a detailed picture of Perkins' s day-to-day work of supplying goods to the military and managing railroad transport. From February 1862 to July 1864, Perkins served with the Army of the Ohio, the Army of the Cumberland, and the Department of the North.
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Three Years with Wallace's Zouaves
The Civil War Memoirs of Thomas Wise Durham
Edited by Jeffrey L. Patrick
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(Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. xxii, 198. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $35.00.)
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Hailing from Montgomery County, Durham served in Company G of the 11th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and saw action in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Champion Hill, and the siege of Vicksburg. The illustrations are uncited, some of the footnotes appear on the incorrect pages, and the annotations are at times incomplete. However, Durham provides enlightening commentary on Wallace (whom he considers blameless at Shiloh), Sherman ("as a 'cusser' he was the finest artist in the business" [p. 125]), and daily soldier life (smoking, brawling, and cussing).
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To Battle for God and the Right
The Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke
Edited by Glen V. Longacre and John E. Haas
Foreword by Peter Cozzens
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(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xxxv, 332. Notes, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
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This edited collection of letters provides a comprehensive narrative of a volunteer soldier in the Army of the Cumberland. From August 1861 to August 1865, Opdycke wrote lengthy and frequent letters to his wife, describing details of his life with the 41st Ohio Volunteer Infantry and later the 125th Ohio, and revealing in the process his complex character. Opdycke, who was eventually discharged with the rank of brigadier general in early 1865, was best known for defying his superior officer in the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, in November 1864—an act that helped to ensure a Union victory there.
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The Longest Raid of the Civil War
Little Known and Untold Stories of Morgan's Raid into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio
By Lester V. Horwitz. . . |
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