Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
During three years of the Civil War, Colonel John Beatty of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment dealt with drunkenness, desertion, insubordination and mutiny, and at one point tied a drunken mutineer to a tree until the man sobered up. He didn''t shoot or dismiss the man, because everyone was needed for service. This emblematic event and many others are detailed in this history, illustra...
During three years of the Civil War, Colonel John Beatty of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment dealt with drunkenness, desertion, insubordination and mutiny, and at one point tied a drunken mutineer to a tree until the man sobered up. He didn''t shoot or dismiss the man, because everyone was needed for service. This emblematic event and many others are detailed in this history, illustra...
