Under the flag of the nation
Subtitle: diaries and letters of Owen Johnston Hopkins, a Yankee volunteer in the Civil War
By: edited by Otto F. Bond.
Contributors: Bond, Otto Ferdinand, 1885-
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Hopkins, Owen Johnston, 1844-1902 -- Diaries.; Hopkins, Owen Johnston, 1844-1902 -- Correspondence.; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 42nd (1861-1864); United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 182nd (1864-1865); Soldiers -- Ohio -- Biography.; Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
Description: From these diaries and letters of a soldier in the Union Army emerges a revealing portrait of their author, a man caught up in a life-and-death struggle of national import. Compiled from the diaries kept by Owen Johnston Hopkins while he was on duty with the 42nd and 182nd regiments, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and from letters to his family and friends, this book gives a clear picture of the motives, attitudes, and sentiments of a Yankee soldier during the Civil War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society, 1961, in series: Publications of the Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission, no. 1.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: I. The Cumberland Campaign, 1861-62; title: II. The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863; title: III. Keeping Watch on the Mississippi, 1864; title: IV. Letters from Nashville, 1864-65; title: V. Epilogue, 1865-1902; title: Appendixes; title: A. Muster Roll of Company K, Forty-second Regiment, O.V.I.; title: B. Service Record of Owen J. Hopkins; title: C. List of Articles Received from Captain Irvin by Owen J. Hopkins, Regimental Quartermaster, One Hundred Eighty-second, O.V.I., Nashville, Tennessee; title: D. A Private Expense Account, March through July, 1865.