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Other Civil War Projects-July 16, 2004
I am also currently working on several other Civil War projects that are unrelated to the 144th Ohio but may be of interest to other researchers.
My 37th Indiana page is up and as complete as it is going to be until after the November elections. Check it out!
My Company C, 21st Ohio Infantry project is complete and online. Visit here. I will be adding new material as time permits including a story of how the 21st Ohio got into trouble in the early summer of 1863 for sloppiness while on guard duty and a court martial of one of Company C's martyrs at Chickamauga.
The Civil War newspaper letter indexing project continues as I am now working on the smaller weekly newspapers from the rural counties of Northwest Ohio. To date, I have completed the indexes for Lucas, Wood, Henry, Paulding, Defiance, Ottawa and Williams Counties. I will finish Northwest Ohio and I think call it a day for a while. Hopefully I will be able to get back to this in the fall. Gotta get W reelected.
I have also completed my company project in which I was trying to find out where each company of all of Ohio's Civil War regiments were recruited. Click here to see the intro page for the lists. I was able to get good information on 77 of Ohio's 88 counties. Additions and corrections eagerly sought!
Lastly, my long term project is gathering material for a campaign level study of the Stones River campaign December 1862-January 1863. As much as I enjoy Peter Cozzens work on this campaign, his book seems to leave a number of important facets of the battle out, while making an embarassing number of factual errors. His later work on Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Cornith is among the best research and writing I have ever seen, but his first work falls a little flat in comparison with his later triumphs. I have decided to give a fresh look at the battle on a regiment by regiment basis and try to draw some new conclusions.
I have completed my preliminary research on the entire order of battle for both armies and am now gathering up information from the Supplement to the OR, newspaper letters, regimental histories, etc. I hope to finish this about 2007-2008. Hope to have the book written and marketed by 2010. Yeah, tell me about it.
I have a website on the 67th Ohio Infantry, an eastern theater unit that fought at Kernstown, Fort Wagner, Chester Station, Weir Bottom Church, and a number of battles around Petersburg. I have collected more than 100 letters from many members of the regiment. I will be starting by posting casualty lists and official reports from each of the various engagements with more detailed info to come later. This will be fun writing about a regiment that didn't serve with the Army of the Cumberland.
Among projects that are in the dim distant future: a comprehensive analysis of the Battle of Pickett's Mills, Georgia, a reexamination of the despised, tatterdemalion 11th Corps of the Army of the Potomac (I have a soft spot for the 'damn Dutch', my ancestry is partly German), and a short biography of Brevet Brigadier General Isaac Minor Kirby of 15th Ohio/101st Ohio Infantry fame. Truly an underappreciated hero of the Civil War.
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37th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, second National Colors (1864)
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