Jim Bissland, author of "Blood, Tears, and Glory: The Civil War's Untold Story", will speak at the meeting of the Warren County Genealogical Society on Wed, November 18, at 7:30 PM. The meeting will be held in the Phillipi Meeting Room of the Campus Center at the Otterbein-Lebanon Retirement Community, 585 State Route 741 (north of State Route 63), near Lebanon OH. Mr. Bissland gives a lively and interesting talk on the role of Ohio in the Civil War. No reservations are necessary. The meeting is open to the public and we hope that you will be able to join us. Arne H. Trelvik Warren County Genealogical Society (513) 695 1144 or wcgs@co.warren.oh.us -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is the description of Jim’s book from the publisher’s website http://www.orangefrazer.com/btg/index.html It’s the greatest untold story of the Civil War… …and one of the newest. For 150 years, the battlefields of Virginia, Gettysburg, and Antietam were what Americans thought of first when they thought of the Civil War. Wrong. While Easterners were battling to a bloody stalemate, Midwestern farmers, shopkeepers, and country lawyers fighting elsewhere were shaping the war’s outcome. Dismissed by haughty Easterners as “armed rabble or “drunkards,” these citizen-soldiers, white and black, often were poorly trained and poorly equipped-—but they were tough, confident, and supported by strong women who found their own ways to get into the fight. And the Midwesterners included most of the Union’s top generals. From brilliant, if flawed, commanders to feisty enlisted men who were hard to discipline but hard to scare, Blood, Tears, & Glory tells powerful stories of the war, many for the first time, and all from a new point of view. Next to Lincoln, the war’s most important leaders were three men with Ohio roots: the first, a silent, slouchy little man who hated the sight of blood and loved his family more than anything; the second, a jittery lover of literature who was once thought to be insane; the third, a sickly lawyer known for his mysterious ways and ferocious temper. And, far more than we realize, women and blacks played major roles in the drama. Together, the men and women of the Civil War era form one of our greatest generations, and their many stories of heroism and heartbreak, brilliance and stupidity, compassion and cruelty, come together for the first time in one great story: Blood, Tears, and Glory: How Ohioans Won the Civil War.