Sons of Union Veterans Mansfield, Ohio

We look forward to attending the Sons of Union Veterans MCLaughlin Camp Mansfield, Ohio May 18,2011 meeting at 7 pm at the Soldiers and Sailors Museum, 34 Park Ave W Mansfield, Ohio.

 At the museum in a central display case second level, I found a Soldier Record for the 82nd Ohio, Company F and Private Hiram Terman was listed as a prisoner at Richmond. 

Hardin County Ohio Civil War 150 Event, Kenton, Ohio

 Max Terman speaking to group at Kenton, Ohio.

Hardin County Historical Museums will be holding the local Ohio Civil War 150 event, Hardin County Civil War 150, on May 14 at the Farm Museum on Fairgrounds Road in Kenton.  This free event will be from Noon to 5, with educational talks at the bottom of each hour.  Hardin County has a rich Civil War history with its citizens' participating in many of the war's major battles, earning two Medals of Honor, and serving as officers at every level.  Come to this Civil War 150 kick-off event and learn more about the Civil War.  Our speakers will cover a variety of topics, share their expert knowledge and be available for questions.  One of our speakers and guests will be Max Terman, author of Hiram’s Honor: Reliving Private Terman’s Civil War. 

Ohio Civil War Show Mansfield, Ohio April 30- May 1, 2011

 

Hiram's Honor will be for sale at the 64th OVI table at the Ohio Civil War Show in Mansfield, Ohio.

In 1861 Hiram Terman joins the 82nd Ohio Infantry not sensing in the slightest what is coming.  At twenty, he has just immersed himself in the boiling cauldron of the American Civil War. As the 82nd moves from battle to battle, he is tormented by the carnage around him and leans on his two friends, the religious Isaiah and the secular Seth for comfort. When the unthinkable happens and they are captured at Gettysburg and eventually sent to the whirlpool of death at Andersonville, their faith and beliefs are tested to the extreme in this true story hammered from the fiery battlefields and grinding prison camps of America's Armageddon.

Ken Burns The Civil War on PBS

 On Picket Duty

I have seen Burn's The Civil War (now showing on PBS) at least 5 times and each exposure  brings forth new thoughts and feelings of the kind that no doubt provided much of the emotional power behind Hiram's Honor.

Good Source for Civil War events and information

http://www.reenactmenthq.com/

Civil War Ancestor Records National Archives

Medical record, muster sheet, and Prisoner of War records for Private Hiram Terman, 82nd Ohio from the National Archives.  Finding records like these for my ancestor added reality to the writing of Hiram's Honor.

Hiram's Honor in Troy, Ohio

I am pleased to announce that Hiram's Honor is now available in Troy, Ohio at Around About Books.  Stop in and have a look around!