Robert's Senior Project- 7

The second part of my research is working with a book titled "Annals of the Nineteenth Ohio Battery". This is a book written by Theodore C. W. Tracie, who was a private in the 19th OVA. This book was written in 1878 and is sort of an account of everything that happened to the battery, where they were, who they fought, who died/got wounded, etc. But its not all about military stuff. There is also a lot about camp life and what the soldiers did when they were not fighting. There are plenty of interesting stories in this book, both that I already saw in the letters and some new ones. I will be looking for the same things in this book as the collection of letters of John Watkins. Additionally, I will be comparing this book and the letters to see if there are any differences in dates or events. As this was written years after the fact, its possible that the author became confused about specific dates, or changed things around for some unknown reason. So I will also be looking for that. Its important that these accounts be written and published because if the stories or accounts were not written down they would be lost to history and we would knew very little about the 19th Ohio Volunteer Artillery.