On the Plains in ’65 : The 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry in the West

Authors

George H. Holliday
Glenn V. Longacre

Files

Series

War and Society in North America

Description

A new scholarly edition of an Ohio boy soldier’s revealing post-Civil War memoir.

This annotated edition of Holliday’s recollections—known primarily among historians of the American West—re-contextualizes his memoir to include his boyhood in southern Ohio and the largely untold story of the hundreds of Buckeyes who crossed the Ohio River to serve their country in Virginia (later West Virginia) regiments, ultimately traveling across Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming to safeguard mail and stage routes along the celebrated Oregon Trail during a pivotal time in American history.

Glenn Longacre’s extensive research in federal, state, and local archives, manuscript collections, and period newspapers complements his correspondence with the living descendants of Holliday and other soldiers. His research integrates this story deservedly as part of Appalachian history before, during, and after the Civil War. From this perspective it addresses an entirely new audience of Appalachian studies scholars, Civil War and frontier history enthusiasts, students, and general readers.

Copyright Statement

On the Plains in '65 © 2021 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Language

eng

ISBN

9780821447215

Publication Date

1-12-2021

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

Glenn Longacre, Military History, civil war, frontier, child combatants, Westward Expansion, Native American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Ohio, West Virginia, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota Territory, Wyoming, Montana, western Americana, John Wilkes Booth, Fort Leavenworth, Platte River, Fort Caspar, mutiny, army deserter

Disciplines

Appalachian Studies | Military History | Native American Studies | United States History

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Holliday, George H. and Longacre, Glenn V., "On the Plains in ’65 : The 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry in the West" (2021). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 58.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/58