TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS; The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Osborn, Hartwell, Capt. and others

Published by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1904

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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 364 pgs, illustrations, maps, unit roster. Bluer both with gilt decoration and title, gilt and decorative spine with unit emblems. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers with edge rubbing and corner wear, covers lightly soiled, spine ends lightly worn. Interior pages clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The regiment was attached to Schenck's Brigade, Railroad District, West Virginia, to March 1862 and Department of the Mountains, to June 1862. Joined Pope's Army of Virginia and the Army of the Potomac, to May 1863. Later to two Army of the Cumberland, to April 1864 and Army of the Cumberland and Army of Georgia, to July 1865. Engagements in the Shenandoah Valley, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Resaca and Bentonville. The 55th Ohio is identified as one of the Fox 300 Fighting Regiments. REFERENCE: Dornbusch OH #277; NEVINS I pg 140: "A strictly military history of a unit that served in the East through Gettysburg and then participated in the 1864-1865 engagements in the West." RYAN 542: "The history is one of the best regimental contributions. Its narration of four years' service almost entirely on the front and on the firing line is in true historical style, and the campaigns of Virginia, Gettysburg and the March to the Sea are described fully because the FiftyFifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry played an honorable part in all." FOX 300 pg 328. Seller Inventory # 1221002

Bibliographic Details

Title: TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS; The Record of the ...

Publisher: A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago

Publication Date: 1904

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition