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… a fascinating and readable account of the ones whose service to the Blue used to be brief but in some cases dangerous and exciting.” ― The Civil War News
This useful and entertaining book presents, basically within the words of the participants, the enjoy of the 35,000 Ohioans who served in one hundred-day regiments right through the summer of 1864.” ―Choice
Drawn from Civil War diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts, A Hundred Days to Richmond tells for the primary time the whole story of Ohio’s “one hundred-day men,” state militia troops offered for Union service for 100 days. Their tales―unique and memorable, and unmistakably American―reflect the hope, fear, determination, horror, humor, and grit of the Civil War.