The Civil War correspondence between Lt. Colonel Joseph Bruff and his family offers a richly detailed and insightful look into the military life and home front concerns of a Union volunteer officer. Bruff, an Ohio Quaker farmer and lawyer, rose from Captain to regimental command of the storied 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry—Opdycke’s Tigers. The Tigers saw action in most of the major battles in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama in 1863 and 1864. Ably edited and annotated by Bruff’s great-great granddaughter, Barbara Hemmingsen , Civil War Letters to and from Home offers an exceptional treasure-trove of over 250 previously unpublished letters and documents from the Civil War and genealogical information that will interest and excite scholars, genealogists and amateur historians alike.