When his captain was killed during the Battle of Perryville, John Calvin Hartzell was made commander of Company H, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He led his men during the Battle of Chickamauga, the siege of Chattanooga, and the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
The late Charles I. Switzer was an emeritus administrator and professor of English at Eastern Illinois University.
[A] feeling of ecstasy, born of the roar of battle and the smell of
burnt powder, takes hold of you, and each man feels invincible, and
in such a state of mind danger and death have no terrors.
*Company H, 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry*
“Overall this is a remarkable work by a veteran written some
thirty-five years after the events related. Charles I. Switzer, the
editor, does an excellent job of introducing the work in fifteen
pages...Switzer also does a tremendous service to his reader by
providing, in endnotes, explanations of the events and people
involved in the related episodes.”
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