Yankee Tigers II: Civil War Field Correspondence from the Tiger Regiment of Ohio [125th OVI] Ed. by Richard Baumgartner. 295 pp., illus., index.

Yankee Tigers II: Civil War Field Correspondence from the Tiger Regiment of Ohio

Edited by Richard A. Baumgartner

Although the passage of time has dimmed present-day appreciation perceptibly, many incidents of the 125th Ohio's history and contribution to final Union victory are preserved in the compilation of correspondence presented here. In one of his last letters written in 1865, "Victor" eloquently summarized his fellow soldiers' symbolic epitaph: "Those men that had so often faced the bristling ranks of the foe, with hearts steeled to deeds of noble daring, wept as they thought of their slain comrades. But the stern, compressed lip showed that the fire of valor they had caught from their former Colonel still burned in their hearts, and that they deserve the name they had won, of "The Tiger Regiment of Ohio.`"

Richard A. Baumgartner

Huntington, West Virginia