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J. Hamp (John Hamilton) SeCheverell

A Civil War veteran, he turned the hard-won memories of his regiment into a detailed history of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteers. His book preserves the marches, battles, and everyday endurance of Union soldiers through some of the war’s best-known campaigns.

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Journal History of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865 Its Victories and its Reverses. And the campaigns and battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, the March to the Sea, and the campaign of the Carolinas, in which it bore an honorable part

Journal History of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865 Its Victories and its Reverses. And the campaigns and battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, the March to the Sea, and the campaign of the Carolinas, in which it bore an honorable part

by J. Hamp (John Hamilton) SeCheverell

About the author

John Hamilton SeCheverell, who wrote as J. Hamp SeCheverell, is known for Journal History of the Twenty-ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865, published in Cleveland in 1883. Library and catalog records identify him as the author of this regimental history, and the book was later made widely available through archives and Project Gutenberg.

The work grew out of his own connection to the regiment. In the book’s prefatory material, fellow veterans note that he had been asked to prepare the history for the regiment’s twentieth reunion, suggesting that he wrote not as a distant historian but as someone closely tied to the men and events he described. The book follows the Twenty-Ninth Ohio through campaigns including Winchester, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Atlanta, the March to the Sea, and the Carolinas.

Available memorial records indicate that John Hamilton SeCheverell lived from 1841 to 1910 and served in the Civil War in the 29th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, along with later service in other Union units. Taken together, the surviving records present him as a veteran-author whose main legacy is preserving the story of his regiment for later generations.