OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN THE WORLD WAR.
It may be too soon to write a great
history of the
World War. We still stand in the shadow
of that vol-
canic upheaval. We are too close to it,
in time and in-
terest, to measure in due perspective,
its mighty pro-
portions.
It is not too soon, however, to record
the facts upon
which that history is to be built. The
part of the United
States in that war is the aggregate
contribution of the
States and territories; the part of
Ohio in that war
is the sum total of the activities of
the eighty-eight coun-
ties of the State. It is not too soon
to record, in con-
nected and convenient form, the
contributive effort of
each of these political subdivisions.
This should be
done while many of the actors are still
living, before
contemporaneous records are scattered
or permanently
lost.
There has recently been presented to
the Library of
the Society, a neatly printed and
substantially and beau-
tifully bound volume that may well be
noted as a model
for counties whose World War history
has not yet been
written. The title of this book is Fairfield
County in
the World War. The author is Judge Van A. Snider,
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