A Summer in Maryland and Virginia; Or, Campaigning with the 149th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. A Sketch of Events Connected with the Service of the Regiment in Maryland and the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

A veteran of Company A offers a candid snapshot of the 149th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the summer of 1864, when the regiment answered Ohio’s call for a hundred‑day push to free veteran troops for the final drive on Richmond. He sketches the hurried mustering of thousands of National Guard men, the restless preparations in Ross County, and the early march toward Baltimore, giving listeners a sense of the eager optimism that accompanied the Union’s strategic gamble.

From the bustling garrison at Fort No. 1 to the tense moments of General Early’s incursion, the account follows the regiment through skirmishes at Monocacy and the sudden raid by Mosby’s cavalry in Berryville. Interwoven with observations of camp life, camaraderie, and the hardships of sudden combat, the narrative captures both the personal bravery of soldiers like Colonel Allison Brown and the broader turmoil of the Shenandoah Valley campaign, all while preserving the immediacy of a soldier’s memory.