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Contents List of Illustrations xi Series Editors’ Preface xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction One Ohio at the Center of the Nation Abigail House Favors Free Soil in the Western Reserve An Ohio Democrat Opposes the Kansas-Nebraska Act John P. Parker Recalls His Work on the Underground Railroad The Kidnap and Return of Oliver Anderson Charles H. Langston Addresses the Court in the OberlinWellington Rescue Case A Fugitive Case in Zanesville Ohio Responds to John Brown’s Raid Salmon P. Chase: “The people desire Union and Concord” Two The Election of and the Secession Crisis Do the North and South Understand Each Other? William Dennison’s Inaugural Speech Republicans Appeal to Iron Workers Freedom of Lands to Actual Settlers The Union—What Is It Worth? Republicans Care Very Little about Slavery The Brave Cheese-Mongers Cleveland Welcomes Abraham Lincoln Rutherford B. Hayes: “We shall of course not agree about the War” A Belmont County Family Wants Peace “I am going” vii Three Taking Up and Giving Up a Short War Troops in Columbus Are Not in “Apple-Pie Order” A Cincinnati Woman Records the First Months of War “Oh how hard it was to let him go” The Farming Interest Marietta’s Working Class Organizes Ohio Learns of Bull Run “What is to be done with the helpless blacks?” Governor Dennison Appeals for Aid for Ohio Soldiers Dr. John B. Rice Defends the Honor of His Regiment at Shiloh The Monarch Aids the Shiloh Wounded A Report on the Ladies of Amesville Four Debates over Liberty and Loyalty More Than a Matter of Property The Toledo Riot The “Conscious Impotence” of Emancipation “A few days more and the game will be up” William Nelson Recalls Freedom in Ohio Elizabeth Gray Reports on the Siege of Cincinnati An Ohio Soldier Hunts Rebels in Kentucky “The persons and property of the citizens are sacred” “We have now. . . . a divided north” Five Lines of Battle: Soldiers and Their Communities The Taylors’ Battles Are Close to Home Park Johnson Operates with the Eighteenth Ohio Infantry “An inheritance to my beloved children” Darwin D. Cody Fights at Chancellorsville George Benson Fox and the “Seventy-fives” at Gettysburg A Father and Son Go to War “To secure justice to the colored soldiers” viii Contents Six The Costs of War “The experiment has failed” A Timely Word to Farmers Welsh Immigrants Believe the Country Will Never Be the Same The Trials of Vallandigham A Citizen Recounts Morgan’s Raid “All can’t go, all won’t go and all don’t want to go” William A. Johnston Seeks Deserters in Coshocton A Word to Laboring Men The Forty-fifth Ohio Infantry Supports John Brough A “Monstrous Outrage” in New Lisbon “Shameful Conduct” of Women in Portsmouth Sarah Rice Engages in Politics in Fremont John Chase’s Father Has Turned His Enemy “I am just as I always was” Prisoner Shootings at Camp Chase Seven The Battles of A Soldier in the Fifth U.S. Colored Regiment Predicts a Brighter Day “The negro question is only just opening upon us” An Ohio Soldier in the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Fights for Liberty A Prognosis for Farmers The Resolutions of Working Men in Cincinnati Governor Brough Investigates Recruiting in Ohio Chauncey Welton Explains “The eavel attending a chainge” Republican Women in Salt Creek Take Action “The ‘public’ is simply crazy” Democrats Question the “Good Times” of the Lincoln Administration Alvin C. Voris Believes the North Is Awakening A Mother and Son Write of War Eight The Imprint of War “Fourth of Julys, every one” Benjamin Rees Advises Prospective Immigrants to Stay Home Contents ix Aplin Martin Comes Home The Oberlin Committee Presses J. D. Cox on Black Suffrage Benjamin Wade Speaks Out on Labor and Capital Thomas Smith Dedicates the Soldiers’ Monument in Washington County Timeline Discussion Questions Notes Selected Bibliography Index x Contents ...
