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Not only was the city the North's most populous in the west, but it was also the nation's third-most productive manufacturing center. Instrumental in the Underground Railroad prior to the conflict, the city became a focal point for curbing Southern incursion into Union territory, and nearby Camp Dennison was Ohio's largest camp in the Civil War and one of the largest in the United States. Cincinnati historian David L. Mowery examines the many different facets of the Queen City during the war, from the enlistment of the city's area residents in more than 590 Federal regiments and artillery units to the city's production of seventy-eight U.S. Navy gunboats for the nation's rivers. 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Sending eleven regiments and two batteries to the fight, the Buckeye State lost hundreds during the Maryland Campaign's first engagement, South Mountain, and hundreds more \"gave their last full measure of devotion'? at the Cornfield, the Bloody Lane, and Burnside's Bridge. Many of these brave men are buried in the Antietam National Cemetery. Aged veterans who survived the ferocious contest returned to Antietam in the early 1900s to fight for and preserve the memory of their sacrifices all those years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin Kevin Pawlak and Dan Welch as they explore Ohio's role during those crucial hours on September 17, 1862.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arcadia Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033549553887,"sku":"700388","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0610\/1997\/9999\/files\/9781467146913.jpg?v=1748970522"},{"product_id":"ohio-at-antietam-copy","title":"Quotations from Ulysses S. 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data-section-type=\"product-template\" data-section-id=\"8188925051176\" class=\"product-section\" id=\"ProductSection-8188925051176\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"supadu-product-tabs js-supadu-product-tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"product-tabs-wrapper\" class=\"tabs-wrapper js-product-tabs-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"is-visible-desktop container--small\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"detailsTabContent\" class=\"tab-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"desc-tab\" class=\"tab-pane active\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"products-details-wrapper\" class=\"grid__item medium-up--one-third middle-column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"grid__item medium-up--one-third middle-column\" id=\"products-details-wrapper\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"product__description js-product__description desktop\"\u003eOn his twenty-sixth horrifying mission over the hostile skies of Nazi Europe, a charismatic bombardier, seated at the nose of a B-17, strapped on his parachute as his disintegrating bomber dropped uncontrollably to the ground. What got him to this point, the ensuing months behind barbed wire and his daily letters written to his family in Akron, Ohio, makes for an emotionally intense memoir. 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