As you know, our very own Tim Nye has introduced a new program for this season concerning various topics on the Civil War. Cpl. Nye's intent here is for all of us to get more involved with sharing topics that interest us. There is always something to learn in this hobby and there is no better way to do it than sharing it amongst pards. Tim says, "Gentlemen, these are just some ideas for topics. Find your own. What I am looking for is a breif 5-10 minute talk on your subject. Use handouts, pictures, written letters, maps, whatever it takes to educate the 6OVI. All I ask is to let me know what your topic will be, and at which event."
*6th OVI overall history, battles, soldiers, officers, home life, training, and letters
*Reading The Story of a Regiment, by E. Hannaford
*Ohio during the war, economics, politics, social changes because of the war
*Cincinnati during the war, war effort, politics, social changes
*Soldier's letters, i.e. Sullivan Ballou's letter just before the First Bull Run
*Poetry, i.e. The Bivouac of the Dead by Theodore O'Hara
*Excerpt's from soldier's diaries, i.e. Sam Watkins, John Ransom's Andersonville Diary, All For The Union the let
letters Elisa Rose Hunt, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes. Choose your own.
*Equipment and weapons
*Medicine
*Sanitary Commission
*Recruiting and the draft
*Deserters
*Punishments
*Religion and chaplains
*Rations
*Marches and battlefield conditions
*Being wounded
*Death and burial
*Training
*Stories about officers, Grant, Sherman, Sickle, Lee, Longstreet, Sheridan, Chamberlain, etc.
*Spies and spying
*Regimental histories
*Women as soldiers
*Women of the Civil War. i.e. Clara Barton
*Politicians
*Songs and their meaning and history
*Slang terms and their history
*Story's about brother against brother, reasons why they fought on the side they did
*African american soldiers
*Relationships between genenrals before the war. Read: The Class of 1846 by John Waugh
*Copperheads
*CW battles, especially those the 6th was involved in
*Building the armies
*Prisoner of war camps, both North and South
*Reading of period newspapers
