From Columbia to the Rhine

About the Collection

This book is intended to show the life of the men in the Fourth Engineers, what they did and how they felt, and not to give a history of the war. It was written by men who are not writers, illustrated by men who are not artists, edited by men who are not editors, and printed (under difficulties) by German printers.

"Look at the feet on him."

"Yea-Bo: look at his ear."

Such cries as these greeted the recruits that arrived at Vancouver Barracks to form the 4th Regiment of Engineers. And they sure were an outfit that looked as if they had just drifted off the tip of the cartoonists pen.

About the Digitization Process

This material was added to the Library's digital collections by the Electronic Publishing Center. The EPC, which was in operation from 2000 to 2008, was an early digitization program at the OSU Library.

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