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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 472, (4) pgs, illustrations, plans, portrait frontis, portrait plates, unit roster. Original patterned green cloth with gilt title on spine. Signature and note by Hudson Fitch, Co. D, 125 O.V.I. Additional gift inscription by another family of a unit member, Jesse B. Luse, who is pictured on page 287. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Front cover has some moisture damage, light wear on edges, spine ends rubbed and worn. Interior pages are clean and tight. Front hinge has been repaired; else pages are clean and tight. With clear, mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 125th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio for three years of service on October 6, 1862, under the command of Colonel Emerson Opdycke. The regiment was attached to Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland till October, 1864. Later assigned to the Dept. of Texas, until it mustered out of service on September 25, 1865. In Colonel Opdycke's brigade, it fought in the Battle of Franklin and the Union victory at Nashville. The 125th OVI gained a high reputation for its fighting qualities and earned its nickname, "Opdycke's Tigers". It fought at the Battle of Chickamauga and in the Battle of Missionary Ridge. It helped to push Braxton Bragg's men away from Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the spring of 1864, it joined William Tecumseh Sherman in his Atlanta Campaign. They fought all the way until the end, at the Battle of Jonesborough, and then preceded to follow Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood north to Nashville, Tennessee. REFERENCE: DORN OH #420: NEVINS I pg 70: "Short memoirs, diary extracts, etc. appear here and there in this profusely illustrated chronicle" RYAN #119: "One of the best of Ohio regimental histories; and the regiment was one of the best of Ohio regiments. It received its nickname The 'Opdycke Tigers' for its heroic conduct on the battlefield of Chickamauga. It was on the second day of the battle, Sunday, September 20, 1863, when the regiment, fighting under the direct observation of its division commander, Gen. Thomas J. Wood, was called by him the name that it carried through and since the war. From that date the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth O. V. I. seldom passed another command without hearing such expressions as 'There go the Tigers.' 'How are you Tigers ?' 'Go in Tigers.' The volume is typographically far above the ordinary regimental history in excellence. Its hundreds of portraits of commanders, officers, and men of the regiment add to its value and interest. Its literary style is of the best, and the description of the regiment's part in the battle of Chickamauga, as well as the general history narrated, stamps it as the work of a painstaking and attractive writer. It also contains the proceedings of the annual reunions to the date of publication, of the regiment, including the twelfth July 3, and 4, 1895.". N° de ref. del artículo 0124057
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