Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments 1. "Be just, and fear not": Origins 2. "On Mrs. Winget's farm": Recruitment and Camp Simon Kenton 3. "We are not Yankees, we are Buckeyes": Western Virginia 4. "Slush and mud and rain, continually and unvaried": McDowell and the Shenandoah Valley 5. "The Dump": The Second Manassas Campaign 6. "We were the last to leave the field": Chancellorsville 7.

"For I was dead, and everybody knew that I was dead": The Gettysburg Campaign 8. "Appreciation of his Noble Conduct": The Pursuit of Lee and Northern Virginia 9. "Doomed . to comparative inactivity": Transfer to the West and Chattanooga 10. "Home has too many charms for a soldier": Veteran Volunteers 11. "It would draw tears from the hardest heart to look at him": The Atlanta Campaign 12. "We are again on the 'War Path'": The Savannah Campaign 13. "Ruin is thy doom": The Campaign in the Carolinas 14.

"But how can we repay the glorious dead?" Going Home 15. Afterlives: Beyond the War Appendix A. The Will of Martha Washington of Mount Vernon Appendix B. "Come Up from the Fields Father" by Walt Whitman Appendix C. David Thomson's 1892 Affidavit Appendix D. Summary of Organization Assignments and Command Structure, 82nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Chapter Notes Bibliography Index.