Civil War Book Club (Blood, Tears, & Glory: How Ohioans Won the Civil War by James Bissland)

Civil War Book Club has been postponed to Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM.

Are you a history buff? Interested in the Civil War?

If so, please join us for our Civil War Book Club on Saturday, January 11, 2025 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

We will be discussing Blood, Tears, & Glory: How Ohioans Won the Civil War by James Bissland. Gene Huffman, member of the Cadot-Blessing Camp #126 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, will be the moderator for the discussion.

It is the greatest untold story of the Civil War, and one of the newest. 

For 150 years, the battlefields of Virginia, Gettysburg, and Antietam were  what Americans thought of first when they thought of the Civil War. Wrong. While Easterners were battling to a bloody stalemate, Midwestern farmers, shopkeepers, and country lawyers fighting elsewhere were shaping the war's outcome.

Dismissed by haughty  Easterners as armed rabble or drunkards, these citizen-soldiers, white and black, often were poorly trained and poorly equipped - but they were tough, confident, and supported by strong women who found their own ways to get into the fight. And the Midwesterners included most of the Union's top generals. From brilliant, if flawed, commanders to feisty enlisted men who were hard to discipline but hard to scare, Blood, Tears, & Glory tells powerful stories of the war, many for the first time, and all from a new point of view.

(description courtesy of Orange Frazer Press)

Copies of Blood, Tears, & Glory are available for checkout at the Library. 

Unfortunately, there are no e-book or digital audiobook copies available.

If you are interested in attending or would like a copy of the book, please contact Lynn by stopping in at the Library, calling 740.446.7323 x 229, or e-mailing lpauley@bossardlibrary.org.

Light refreshments will be served.

This event is free and open to all.