The Story of a Regiment: A History of the Campaigns and Associations in the Field, of the Sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry
By , formerly a Member of the Regiment, and later Adjutant of the 197th O. V. I. Cincinnati : Published by the Author.
THE story of the Sixth Ohio includes notice of many of the principal military operations in the Southwest, from the beginning of the war until June, 1864, when the regiment was mustered out of service. It is another of those narratives of the Rebellion, restricted in one sense, but of universal interest in another, which we are always glad to welcome ; it gives that fulness of detail which satisfies personal and local feeling, and it forms a study from new points of view of great events and great commanders not to be too well known. It is in spirit a model for books of its kind, and is both faithful and modest, written with clearness, and with no more rhetorical exuberance than is easily pardonable. General Nelson is the author’s hero, but even his character is treated with frank justice in its defective points ; and there is evidence throughout of honest feeling and solid work. The second part is made up of personal reminiscences, letters, and magazine sketches of members of the regiment. Altogether, the book is to be valued and read for itself now, and to be sought hereafter as admirable material by whoever aspires to write the history of the war.