Ohio's War

Ohio's War: The Civil War in Documents is the first in a series of documentary collections of primary sources. The Civil War in the Great Interior series will aid professors and students, as well as the informed general reader, in exploring the social, political, and military impact of the Civil War in the states of the Middle West.

Christine Dee is an independent scholar, living in Carlisle, Massachusetts. Her current project is a comparative study of northern Alabama and southern Ohio during the Civil War.

List of Illustrations

xi

Series Editors' Preface

xiii

Preface

xv

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

1

(5)

Ohio at the Center of the Nation

6

(27)

Abigail House Favors Free Soil in the Western Reserve

10

(3)

An Ohio Democrat Opposes the Kansas-Nebraska Act

13

(1)

John P. Parker Recalls His Work on the Underground Railroad

14

(5)

The Kidnap and Return of Oliver Anderson

19

(2)

Charles H. Langston Addresses the Court in the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case

21

(5)

A Fugitive Case in Zanesville

26

(2)

Ohio Responds to John Brown's Raid

28

(2)

Salmon P. Chase: ``The people desire Union and Concord''

30

(3)

The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

33

(20)

Do the North and South Understand Each Other?

36

(1)

William Dennison's Inaugural Speech

37

(2)

Republicans Appeal to Iron Workers

39

(1)

Freedom of Lands to Actual Settlers

40

(1)

The Union---What Is It Worth?

41

(1)

Republicans Care Very Little about Slavery

42

(1)

The Brave Cheese-Mongers

43

(1)

Cleveland Welcomes Abraham Lincoln

44

(1)

Rutherford B. Hayes: ``We shall of course not agree about the War''

45

(2)

A Belmont County Family Wants Peace

47

(4)

``I am going''

51

(2)

Taking Up and Giving Up a Short War

53

(22)

Troops in Columbus Are Not in ``Apple-Pie Order''

55

(1)

A Cincinnati Woman Records the First Months Of War

56

(6)

``Oh how hard it was to let him go''

62

(1)

The Farming Interest

63

(1)

Marietta's Working Class Organizes

64

(1)

Ohio Learns of Bull Run

64

(2)

``What is to be done with the helpless blacks?''

66

(1)

Governor Dennison Appeals for Aid for Ohio Soldiers

67

(1)

Dr. John B. Rice Defends the Honor of His Regiment at Shiloh

68

(2)

The Monarch Aids the Shiloh Wounded

70

(2)

A Report on the Ladies of Amesville

72

(3)

Debates over Liberty and Loyalty

75

(19)

More Than a Matter of Property

77

(2)

The Toledo Riot

79

(2)

The ``Conscious Impotence'' of Emancipation

81

(2)

``A few days more and the game will be up''

83

(1)

William Nelson Recalls Freedom in Ohio

83

(2)

Elizabeth Gray Reports on the Siege of Cincinnati

85

(2)

An Ohio Soldier Hunts Rebels in Kentucky

87

(3)

``The persons and property of the citizens are sacred''

90

(1)

``We have now . . . a divided north''

91

(3)

Lines of Battle: Soldiers and Their Communities

94

(35)

The Taylors' Battles Are Close to Home

96

(3)

Park Johnson Operates with the Eighteenth Ohio Infantry

99

(6)

``An inheritance to my beloved children''

105

(3)

Darwin D. Cody Fights at Chancellorsville

108

(4)

George Benson Fox and the ``Seventy-fives'' at Gettysburg

112

(5)

A Father and Son Go to War

117

(10)

``To secure justice to the colored soldiers''

127

(2)

The Costs of War

129

(36)

``The experiment has failed''

131

(1)

A Timely Word to Farmers

132

(1)

Welsh Immigrants Believe the Country Will Never Be the Same

133

(3)

The Trials of Vallandigham

136

(8)

A Citizen Recounts Morgan's Raid

144

(2)

``All can't go, all won't go and all don't want to go''

146

(2)

William A. Johnston Seeks Deserters in Coshocton

148

(2)

A Word to Laboring Men

150

(1)

The Forty-fifth Ohio Infantry Supports John Brough

151

(1)

A ``Monstrous Outrage'' in New Lisbon

152

(1)

``Shameful Conduct'' of Women in Portsmouth

153

(1)

Sarah Rice Engages in Politics in Fremont

154

(4)

John Chase's Father Has Turned His Enemy

158

(1)

``I am just as I always was''

159

(2)

Prisoner Shootings at Camp Chase

161

(4)

The Battles of 1864

165

(25)

A Soldier in the Fifth U.S. Colored Regiment Predicts a Brighter Day

167

(2)

``The negro question is only just opening upon us''

169

(3)

An Ohio Soldier in the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Fights for Liberty

172

(2)

A Prognosis for Farmers

174

(1)

The Resolutions of Working Men in Cincinnati

175

(2)

Governor Brough Investigates Recruiting in Ohio

177

(2)

Chauncey Welton Explains ``The eavel attending a chainge''

179

(2)

Republican Women in Salt Creek Take Action

181

(2)

``The `public' is simply crazy''

183

(1)

Democrats Question the ``Good Times'' of the Lincoln Administration

184

(1)

Alvin C. Voris Believes the North Is Awakening

185

(3)

A Mother and Son Write of War

188

(2)

The Imprint of War

190

(17)

``Fourth of Julys, every one''

193

(1)

Benjamin Rees Advises Prospective Immigrants to Stay Home

194

(1)

Aplin Martin Comes Home

195

(1)

The Oberlin Committee Presses J. D. Cox on Black Suffrage

196

(2)

Benjamin Wade Speaks Out on Labor and Capital

198

(4)

Thomas Smith Dedicates the Soldiers' Monument in Washington County

202

(5)

Timeline

207

(14)

Discussion Questions

221

(4)

Notes

225

(6)

Selected Bibliography

231

(6)

Index

237

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