Residents Cheer As Union Soldiers Parade Through Cincinnati Following the Confederate Retreat

Residents cheer as Union soldiers parade through Cincinnati following the Confederate retreat. “It was a splendid triumphal march, with music and banners," Wallace observed, “through a multitude apparently innumerable on the streets and crowding every vantage-point of sight on roof, window, and sidewalk.”

Wallace’s initial measures had been tough been defended, the general commented, stared down Confederate veterans. but needed. He understood that defending the Confederates would not have missed Gail Stephens is a retired U.S. Depart a city the size o f Cincinnati required the the chance to shell and burn it. Wallace ment o f Defense employee who serves as a talents and efforts o f all its citizens. It also had proven once again that he had the volunteer at the Monocracy National Battle required a commander who understood skill and ability to handle a large and dif field near Frederick, Maryland; lectures on how to use them. Had Wallace not been ficult military command assignment. The the Civil War; teaches courses at area colleges; tough, energetic and organized, the city defense of Cincinnati is an amazing but and gives battlefield tours. Her book on Lew would not have been defended and almost virtually unknown piece o f U.S. history. Wallace, Shadow of Shiloh: Major General certainly would have fallen to Heth. The threat of a Confederate attack rallied Lew Wallace in the Civil War, will be pub General William T. Sherman wrote his the combined efforts of the citizens of lished by the Indiana Historical Society Press brother, U.S. senator John Sherman, that Indiana and Ohio, and led by an inspiring in August 2010. • Ohio had a near miss. Had Cincinnati not young commander, an army of amateurs

FOR FURTHER READING------

Leeke, Jim . “The Black Brigade." Timeline 18 (July-August 2001): 42-53. | McDonough, James Lee. War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994. | Volpe, Vernon L. '“Dispute Every Inch of Ground’: Major General Lew Wallace Commands Cincinnati, September 1862.” Indiana Magazine o f History 85 (June 1989): 138-50. | Walden, Geoffrey R., Jam es Ramage, and David E. Roth. “Panic on the Ohio! Confederates March on Cin cinnati.” Blue and Gray Magazine 3 (April-May 1986): 7 -3 3 . | Wallace, Lew. Lew Wallace: An Autobiography. 2 vols. 1906. Reprint, New York: Garrett Press, 1969.

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