A Hundred Days to Richmond: Ohio's "Hundred Days" Men in the Civil War

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | April 1, 2001| | Copyright

A Hundred Days to Richmond: Ohio's "Hundred Days" Men in the Civil War. Edited and with an introduction by JiM LEEKS. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxii, 274 pp. $29.95.

By spring 1864, three years of Civil War had already exacted a horrible toll on the country, but optimistic observers in the North believed that the end was in sight. Perhaps, they reasoned, the war could be pushed to a successful conclusion that summer if Union armies could be infused with thousands of short-term enlistees to tip the scales insurmountably in favor of the North. Such was the ...

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