Description
Curiosity piqued by two poems written by his nice-nice-grandmother initiated David Thackery’s scholarly exploration into the history of the Sixty-6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the wartime history of Champaign County, Ohio, from which it used to be recruited.
Not just a military history, A Gentle and Unsure Hold may be a penetrating and provocative social history which deals with the homefront, morale, reenlistment, and the memory and commemoration of the war. The words and tales of individual squaddies give depth and substance to the regiment’s revel in.