Page:Journal history of the Twenty-ninth Ohio veteran volunteers, 1861-1865.djvu/161



The following review of the battles, sieges, marches, and campaigns in which the Twenty-ninth regiment was engaged, is from the pen of Colonel Jonas Schoonover. It gives in brief the important work of the regiment during its nearly four years' service, and should the "gentle reader" find the descriptive portion of the history too voluminous, she has but to turn to this review to find consolation.

Beginning with the service in the winter of 1861-2, along the waters of the Potomac and its tributaries, and in the mountain regions of Hampshire county, the Romney expedition in West Virginia, the advance to Winchester via Little mountain and Martinsburg, thence into the Shenandoah valley. The Strasburg march, which ended in the battle of Winchester, where the Federal army, under General Shields, and the rebels, commanded by General T. J. Jackson, at Kernstown, engaged in a sanguinary battle on March 23d, 1862, in which the Union army gained a victory. The Twenty-ninth Ohio done its full share, suffering slight loss in killed and wounded. The march up the valley to Madisonburg; the long march to Fredericksburg, leaving the Shenandoah valley at New Market on the 12th day of May, 1862, and reaching Fredericsburg May 22, 1862, a day or two later returning to Luray via Warrenton and Front Royal, up the Luray valley to Port Republic, where, on the 9th day of June, it engaged in battle with heavy loss in killed and wounded. One hundred and ten were made prisoners. The Twenty-ninth was engaged at short range in the open field against three times