To Crown Myself With Honor: The Wartime Letters of Captain Asbury Gatch, 9th Ohio Volunteer

SKU: 9781932250879

The letters transcribed within this volume were written during the American Civil War by Capt. Asbury Gatch to his wife, Mary Etta Hopper Gatch. The span from February 1864 through the end of the war. These letters present the portrait of a man of honor and conviction from Milford, Ohio, who dearly loved his wife and family, who often dreamed of soft bread and porterhouse steaks, who gossiped about the home front, who criticized the stay-at-home "patriots," who derided the Southern aristocracy, and who wrote glowingly of his exploits at war. This revised edition includes new and expanded notes and more than seventy illustrations.

Author/Editor: Gary L. Knepp

bookData: xii, 182 pages; photos, illustrations; notes; appendix; bibliography; index

isbn: 9781932250879

Price: $16.95