It is not expected that this book will be of interest to the general reader; to those only who participated in, or followed with loving eyes, its fortunes, will the dry details, which must necessarily often enter into its composition, be interesting, and without apology to the officers and men, of the 123d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, this book is offered as a true record of their soldier life.
C. M. KEYES.
Sandusky, Ohio, July, 1874.
DEDICATION.
To the noble dead of our old battle-worn regiment, whether sleeping in unknown graves, on southern battlefields, or by the dark prison pens, where only the sighing pines may chaunt their requiem, or it may be in the quiet churchyards of our own bright northland, to their widows and orphans who mourn in sorrow for their bright noble ones who will never more return; to the maimed and crippled ones, limping throughout the land, their heroism saved, these pages are sacredly dedicated.
Author.
MILITARY HISTORY
OF THE
123d Regt. O. V. I.
ORGANIZATION OF REGIMENT.—CALL UNDER WHICH IT WAS RECRUITED.—ORGANIZATION OF EACH COMPANY AND BY WHOM RECRUITED.—MUSTER IN ROLL OF EACH COMPANY, ALSO OF FIELD AND STAFF.