The Citizen-Soldier
Book description
When Southerners fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, John Beatty left his bank job in Ohio to answer President Lincoln's call for soldiers. Within a short while he was commanding the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, as green to combat as his men. The diary he kept from June…
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What about writers more like me? In this book, an Ohio small-town banker turned Union volunteer describes race relations not as Delaney thought they should be but as they were in Union armies commanded by officers who were often anti-Black as well as anti-slavery. It made me feel I was there.
Beatty was a sort of good Union man—no politics at the start of the war, but Radical (Republican) politics at the end of it.
From F.'s list on generals and visionaries intertwined.
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