From Shiloh to Savannah: The Seventh Illinois Infantry in the Civil WarNorthern Illinois University Press, 1868 - 258 Seiten From the first Union victories in the west at Forts Henry and Donelson to the savage battle of Shiloh and onward to the March to the Sea, the Seventh Illinois Infantry fought with distinction across the Confederacy. Ambrose's vivid eyewitness account traces the first Illinois volunteer regiment from its muster in 1861 to the final days of the war. An introduction and explanatory notes by Civil War historian Daniel E. Sutherland reveal the importance of this western unit's contributions. |
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... mail . New commissions . Army launched forth upon the perilous march . Camp three miles from Atianta . Burning of Atlanta . Army moving on four different roads . Camp near Cotton river . Crossing the Ocmulgee CONTENTS . xi.
... miles and anchor for the night . October 5th . - Weigh anchor at daylight , and soon after proceeding on our way , we run on to a sand- bar , where we remain three and a - half hours . Extri- cating ourselves , we move on and arrive at ...
... miles from the Fort and go into camp on the bank of the river . Some one remarks that there is mud here , and so say we , and the most terrible mud . As the sol- diers move through the camp this evening , their cry is : " No bottom ...
... miles from Fort Donelson . The siege of this rebel Gibralter has already commenced . The gun- boats keep muttering . Echoes come from the river like echoes from wrathful thunder . But by and by the regiment falls asleep on their bed of ...
... miles above Fort Donelson . After landing , the regiment is quartered in an old tobacco factory , which seems to please those who smoke , for there is a superabundance of the weed stored here . Says one : " This will save our ...