Horatio H. Quiggle was twenty-three years old in April, 1861, when he walked to Toledo to ask for work from a local ice merchant. Instead, caught up in a tumult of patriotic excitement he enlisted in the 14th Ohio Infantry, a three-months’ regiment being formed by Col. James B. Steedman. That August he re-enlisted, this time for three years. In 1864, he re-enlisted again, determined to finish out the war. He was one of the rare “Boys of ‘61” who served all through the war, a total of four years and three months; mustering out in July 1865. He passed through the war unscathed, fighting in numerous actions, including the desperate Battle of Chickamauga and the other engagements around Chattanooga. He then fought his way to Atlanta, marched to the sea, through the Carolinas, and participated in the Grand Review in Washington. His memoir tells the tale of those times.