From Shiloh to Savannah

General's report, we are unable to furnish them: scarcely any note is made there of our noble wounded. Where the blame lies we do not pretend

to say.

To the officers of the regiment, for encouragement and aid; to Lieut. S. F. FLINT, for valuable poems, written expressly for these pages; and to Rev. W. R. GOODWIN, Pastor M. E. Church, Lincoln, Illinois, for services rendered in reviewing the manuscript, we make our sincere and grateful acknowledgments.

We now throw ourself upon the generosity of the public, disclaiming any pretensions to literary merit, hoping that we will be dealt with gently.

Respectfully,

D. L. A.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

1-10

The Storm that for years had been brewing; Lincoln's Election; The Inaugura -

tion; The wild frenzy of the South; The Fall of Fort Sumpter; The Comme nce -

ment of the War: First call for troops; First muster-in of the Seventh; Three

Month's service; Re-enlistment.

CHAPTER II.

11-24

The commencement of the three years' service; Roster of Officers; Camp at

Mound City, Illinois; Camp at Cairo, Illinois ; Leaving Cairo; Ascending the

Mississippi; Landing at Sulphur Springs; Camp at Ironton; Pilot Knob; Expe-

dition through Missouri; Camp at Cape Girardeau ; Descending the Mississippi ;

Landing at Fort Holt; March to Elliott's Mills; Battle of Belmont; Return to

Fort Holt; Expedition to Blandville and Eiliott's Mills; Preparation to leave

Fort Holt.

CHAPTER III.

25-29

Leaving Fort Holt; Ascending the Ohio and the Tennessee; Landing before Fort

Henry; March to the rear; The mud; Fall of Fort Henry; Accident met with

by Company I; Camp at Fort Henry.

CHAPTER IV.

30-48

March to Fort Donelson; Battle of Fort Donelson; Surrender; Losses; Camp

at Clarksville; Trip up the Cumberland to Nashville; Return to Clarksville;

Descending the Cumberland; Ascending the Tennessee; The Fleet; Landing at

Pittsburg Landing; Our Camp there; Rumors of the Enemy's Advance.

CHAPTER V.

49-65

Battle of Shiloh; First day; The attack; First position of the Seventh; Advanced

position of the Seventh; Their danger; Their retreat; Their new line; Fearful

tempest; The lull; Grant's last line Sunday evening; Victors of that last great

line; Arrival of Buell; The night; The rain; Silent sleepers; The second day;

Two armies fighting hand to hand: Enemy's retreat; Falling of the curtain ;

Seventh's camp upon the field; The fallen; List of casualties; The record;

Seventh's wounded; The living; Burying the dead; Camp at Shiloh after the

battle; Marching orders.

CHAPTER VI.

66-90

Leaving Shiloh; The roads; Joining Sherman at Monterey; Siege of Corinth

Evacuation; Joining Pope; March into Mississippi; Warm weather; Scarcity

of water; Return to Corinth; Camp near the Mobile and Ohio Railroad; Sixt h

Division Camp ; Camp on Purdy road; Camp in Jack-oak Thicket; Battle of

Iuka; Iowa boys our brothers; Ordered to our old camp near Mobile and Ohio

Railroad; Second Division concentrating; Rumors of Price's advance upon

Corinth.

CHAPTER VII.

91-121

Battle of Corinth, first day; Orders to move; Rumor of Price and Van Dorn

advancing; Marched to the outer works; Seventh's positjon in the works; Con-

test on the hill; Flanking of the Seventh; Its safe retreat; Charge of the

Second Division; Second Division fighting the whole rebel army; Ordered into

camp for the night near the college; Movements during the night; Second day.

Position in the morning; Early firing from a rebel battery; Regiment's position

behind the temporary works; The attack; The Fierceness of the battle; Fall-

ing back of the troops; The re-action; The victory; The casualties; Camp on
the field; The pursuit ; Camp at Rookerville, Mississippi; March back to Cor-
inth; Camp at Corinth; Second Division Cinncinnati Commercial's Corres-
pondent, Captain Holden's resignation

CHAPTER VIII.