Absalom's War describes the experiences of the author's
great-grand-uncle, a young Ohio farmer who joined the Union army in
1862, was wounded at Gettysburg and was killed at Kennesaw
Mountain, GA in 1864. It's format is a unique imagined
reconstruction of the experiences of an actual person about whom
little is know, but much information is available on his family,
his home state and counties, and his unit. The book takes advantage
of numerous primary and secondary sources to give a vibrant and
lively description of what it was like to grow up in Ohio in the
18302-1840s, join the army, fight in such major campaigns and
battles as Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga, go home
on furlough during the turbulent run up in Ohio to the 1864
presidential election, and to rejoin the army for Sherman's
campaign to seize Atlanta and march to the sea. Well illustrated
with period art, maps, and photos taken by the author's wife, it is
a unique and fascinating look at the conflict that gripped America
150 years ago, and the sacrifices of the average men who went to
war so that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.
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