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Yankee Tigers: Through the Civil War With the 125th Ohio

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Thoroughly enjoyable book that is well worth the cost for anyone interested in the exploits of the Western federal army and in particular one of the most gallant and honored regiments of the war. Excellent photographs.

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"Yankee Tigers: Through the Civil War with the 125th Ohio" by Ralsa Rice is a spirited and highly entertaining first person account by one of Opdycke's Tigers. Editors Baumgartner and Strayer extensively cross-reference Rice's account with Charles T. Clarks' regimental of the 125th Ohio, as well as the Official Records, pension records, and other pertinent source material.

The real treasures of this book are the numerous cartes de visite from Ralsa Rice's own album, discovered by one of the editors in an Ohio flea market in the 1980s. Of the 67 photos in the book, 18 are from Rice's collection, augmented with another set collected by Captain Edward P. Bates, one of the last commanders of the 125th. These photos allow the reader to put a face with the names of many of the men mentioned in the narrative, an give an added poignancy to the often impersonal statistics of killed, wounded, and missing.

Rice writes with a keen wit, and a soldier's eye for the humorous and ridiculous in the alternatingly frustrating, boring, and terrifying life of the Civil War infantry soldier. He also offers welcome glimpses of the often-overlooked second and third tier commanders in the Western theater.

This is a fine first-person account, and highly recommended.