The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant John V. Patterson of the 21St Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
by
Paul Tremewan, Paul G. Tremewan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
As near Hell as I ever expect to be is the biography of a Civil War soldier from Ohio. In September 1861 twenty-seven-year-old John Vanetton Patterson left his young wife and two babies on their farm near Pemberville. Patterson and thousands of other Ohioans answered Lincoln's call to save the Union....