Transcriber’s Note
This ebook was transcribed by a native of the state of Ohio.
This book transcription is dedicated toThadeus “Ted” Slade, also a native Ohioan and the biggestCivil War history buff I know.
Further notes can be found at the end.
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JOURNAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-NINTH OHIO
Veteran Volunteers,
1861–1865.
ITS VICTORIES AND ITS REVERSES.
And the campaigns and battles of Winchester, Port Republic,Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, The March to theSea, and the campaign of the Carolinas, inwhich it bore an honorable part.
CLEVELAND:
1883.
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Comrades and Friends:
On the twentieth anniversary of the organization ofthe Twenty-ninth regiment Ohio Veteran volunteer infantry,Comrade J. H. SeCheverell was instructed to preparea history of the same, and the undersigned wereappointed a committee to supervise its publication.Comrade SeCheverell, after months of perplexing labor,completed the manuscript which was examined by us inCleveland, July 19, 1882. It was then decided to issuefifty proof copies of the work to be put into the handsof members of the regiment for such additions or correctionsas should be found necessary. This was done, andafter the return of the proofs and the incorporation ofwhatever corrections they contained, Comrade SeCheverellvisited Akron, and spent several days with ColonelSchoonover, to whom was intrusted the correctionsfor that vicinity, and it is with no small degree of satisfactionthat we now present the work to the comradesand friends of the regiment with our hearty endorsement,believing it as complete and perfect as it is possibleto make it.
| David W. Thomas, | ⎫ | |
| Thomas W. Nash, | ⎪ | |
| Thaddeus E. Hoyt, | ⎬ | Committee. |
| Erwin F. Mason, | ⎪ | |
| Chauncey H. Coon, | ⎭ |
Cleveland, Ohio, February 1, 1883.
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AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
In the following pages no attempt at literary gush ismade, the design being simply to preserve from oblivionthe record of the valiant deeds of this, the bravest of thebrave regiments from