Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Maps

Introduction

1. The Boys
2. Muster
3. New Creek
4. Washington
5. Maryland
6. The Shenandoah
7. Cynthiana
8. Petersburg
9. Fourth of July
10. Monocacy
11. Fort Stevens
12. Back to the Valley
13. Prisoners of War
14. The Other Enemy
15. Johnny Comes Marching Home

Appendix A: Mr. Lincoln
Appendix B: Family and Friends
Appendix C: Enlistment and Discharge
Appendix D: Roster of Hundred-Days Regiment

Notes and Sources

Bibliography

Promotional Information

The short, eventful history of Ohio's "hundred days" regiments in the Civil War.

About the Author

Jim Leeke has worked as a reporter in Guam, Michigan, Boston and San Francisco and is now a freelance writer and editor in Worthington, Ohio. His first book was Sudden Ice, a mystery. He is also the editor of Smoke, Sound & Fury: The Civil War Memoirs of Major-General Lew Wallace, W.S. Volunteers.

Reviews

This useful and entertaining book presents, mainly in the words of the participants, the experience of the 35,000 Ohioans who served in 100—day regiments during the summer of 1864. Although Lincoln's call for 100—day troops was directed to all of the Northern states, the largest contingent by far was the National Guard of the State of Ohio, whose governor, John Brough, had suggested the 100—day plan to the president. The purpose of the call—up was to provide an additional manpower boost to Union forces at a time when the North believed that a little extra push would win the war. Neither the Ohio National Guardsmen nor the hundreds of thousands of Union troops already in uniform by that time succeeded in ending the war in the summer of 1864, but the 100—day men did make important contributions by guarding Union supply lines and rear areas, replacing more experienced troops. Some of the guardsmen spent their enlistments in monotonous duty guarding depots or prisoner of war camps; others unexpectedly found themselves in frontline combat situations and performed well, considering their inexperience. Their contribution probably shortened the war. All levels.April 2000
*Texas Christian University*