Blood, Tears, and Glory How Ohioans Won the Civil War is an impressive book.It feels, looks and smells perfect. When I started reading I could tell that James H. Bissland is a fine writer. When we discuss the Civil War, we rarely recognize the contribution that Ohio made to winning the war. The work is well-researched and uses an array of primary sources, including many diaries and early newspaper accounts. This is not just a book on Ohio and the Civil War, though that is indeed its main focus, it is a book about the war and struggles involved for all Americans. Midwesterners are often forgotten in favor of the Northeastern men, who undoubtedly played an important role, but it can be argued that the boys from Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan played the a most pivotal role from the Mississippi to east of the Appalachians.

—Chris Wehner, Blog4history