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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... Colonel Rowett after the sheep : Plans for ambushing the rebels : The Failure : Arrival of re - inforcements : Foraging : Arrival of Colonel Straight : Some bold movement contemplated : Alabama cavalry and the Kansas Jayhawkers on the ...
... Colonel Biffle , C. S. A .: His conversation with the Alabama D. D , ; Seventh mounted : The mules ; Rowett's first raid : Camp on Horton's plantation : Camp at Cotton Ridge : Camp at Henderson : The charge into Montezuma : Camp at ...
... Colonel Rowett's return to the regiment . Captain Ring's detach- ment ordered to Center Star . Camp at Douglass . Camp at Taylors . Camp at Williams . Arrival of the supply train . Attack at Shoal creek , Crossing of Roddy . Fight at ...
... Rowett . First Lieutenant - Manning Mayfield . Second Lieutenant . - George Hunter . At this time the firm steps of ... Colonel Cook , and there exercised in the manual of arms and the battallion evolutions , until they attained a ...
... Colonel . - John Cook . Lieutenant Colonel . — A . J. Babcock , late Capt . Co. “ I. ” Major . - Richard Rowett , late Capt . Co. " K. " Adjutant . - Leroy R. Waller . Quartermaster . - William Brown . Surgeon . - Richard L. Metcalf ...