The Weary Boys
Subtitle: Colonel J. Warren Keifer and the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
By: Thomas E. Pope.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Keifer, Joseph Warren, 1836-1932.; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 110th (1862-1865); Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
Description: "Using primary sources such as journals and letters, author Thomas E. Pope reconsiders the men of the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and their contribution to the Army of the Potomac.".

""Milroy's Weary Boys" was the derisive nickname Major General Winfield Scott Hancock gave to the survivors of the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry after the Second Battle of Winchester. Major General Robert Milroy's division was consolidated and assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and members of the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry were not universally accepted. Many veterans of the Eastern Theater shunned them, and historians have perpetuated this epithet, not recognizing the contributions of the 110th.".

"In The Weary Boys, Pope refutes this undeserved derision. Under the command of Colonel J. Warren Keifer, a veteran of the Civil War's Western Theater, the 110th proved their worth many times over. Only fifteen of the 175 volunteer regiments from Ohio that served in the Union Army suffered the loss of more than one hundred men. The 110th was one of these regiments."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Union, now, henceforth, forever! Amen; title: Now we are soldiers; title: Everything depended upon this effort; title: Well, I am still alive; title: Tears drawn from the deepest sorrow; title: The land of the free; title: Appendix 1: The official roster; title: Appendix 2: Roll of Honor.