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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 f...
Beginning in 1803, and continuing for several decades, the Ohio legislature enacted what came to be known as the Black Laws. Stephen Middleton tells the story of this racial oppression in Ohio and provides chilling episodes of how blacks asserted their freedom from the enactment of the Black Laws until the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.
J. Hamp SeCheverell's 'Journal History of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865' is a significant piece of Civil War literature that provides a detailed account of the experiences of the soldiers who fought in the American Civil War. The book is written in a straightforward and unembellished style, focusing on documenting the day-to-day life of the soldiers, their battles, and the challenges they faced during the war. SeCheverell's meticulous attention to detail and dedication to accurately depicting the realities of war make this book a valuable historical record of the Civil War era. Furthermore, the author's inclusion of personal accounts and letters from the soldiers themse...