Blood, Tears, and Glory; How Ohioans Won the Civil War
Wilmington, OH: Orange Frazer Press, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 588, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Sources Consulted. Index. Bissland was born in Massachusetts, educated at Northfield Mount Hermon School, Bates College, Cornell University (BA), University of Massachusetts (MA), and University of Iowa (Ph.D.). He worked for newspapers and in public relations. He moved to Bowling Green, Ohio, and taught in the journalism program at BGSU for 20 years. Journalism taught Bissland how to get information and write it in an interesting way. He prefers to think of himself more as a storyteller more than a scholar. Dr. James H. Bissland is currently a writer and associate professor of journalism emeritus at Bowling Green State University. He has also written a number of freelance magazine features in New England. In addition to Blood, Tears, and Glory: How Ohioans Won the Civil War, Dr. Bissland wrote Long River Winding: Life, Love and Death Along the Connecticut and co-authored Bountiful Ohio: Good Food and Stories from Where the Heartland Begins. Three hundred thousand Ohio men, one in every 10 citizens of the Buckeye State, fought in the Civil War. Thirty-five thousand of them would die. Some native sons, such as Edwin M. Stanton, William T. Sherman and Phillip H. Sheridan, became household names. Four Ohioans, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield and William McKinley, would become president. But the exploits of others, like infantrymen Thomas F. Galwey, whose regiment, the 8th Ohio, was shot to pieces at Fredericksburg, and cavalrymen such as Colonel Ralph Buckland, whose riders made early contact with advance Rebel units at Shiloh, have been lost in the mists of history. James Bissland, a New Englander transplanted to Ohio, believes these men and thousands of others have stories to tell. He has resurrected them from moldering, mildewed diaries, faded words on the yellowing pages of long-neglected letters, and family histories passed down orally from generation to generation and put them together in Blood, Tears, and Glory, swaggering, broad-shouldered account of the war with a special emphasis on the role Ohioans played in the struggle. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Civil War, Ohio, Vallandigham, John Mercer Langston, Jacob Bruner, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Andersonville, Chancellorsville, James Garfield, Ulysses Grant, George McClellan, William Rosecrans, Philip Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Edwin Stanton
ISBN: 9781933197050
[Book #77601]
Price: $85.00