The Journal of Southern History, May 1st, 2002
Major McKinley: William McKinley and the Civil War. By William H. Armstrong. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 191. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-87338-657-4.) In a July 1861 message to Congress, President Abraham Lincoln hailed the caliber of the volunteer regiments. There is scarcely one, he said, "from which there could not be selected, a President, a Cabinet, a Congress, and perhaps a Court, abundantly competent to administer the government itself' (p. 42). He could have been thinking of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from whose ranks eventually emerged tw...
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