NF New book covers “Opdycke’s Tigers,” the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War

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Belle Montgomery

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WOOSTER — Author and historian Thomas Crowl will discuss his new regimental history “Opdycke’s Tigers in the Civil War: A History of the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry” (McFarland & Company, 2019) at the Wayne County Public Library on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. and also will appear at the Buckeye Book Fair on Nov. 2.
Crowl follows the 125th OVI from its recruitment and training through many battles in the Western Theater of the Civil War until the war’s end.
His accounts of life in camp, on the march and in combat are filled with interesting, vivid detail about what these volunteer soldiers experienced in the course of their three years of service to the Union.
Colonel Emerson Opdycke was already a veteran of combat at the Battle of Shiloh when the call for Ohio to raise 14 new regiments of volunteer soldiers went out. He returned to his home in Warren and in September 1862 was appointed to recruit and command the 125th Regiment. At Camp Cleveland, he devised his own training and drill program for the officers and men. As a result,...
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