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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... battle . Battle of the Allatoona Pass . Companies E and H deployed on skirmish line . Demand for surrender . Skirmish line ordered back . Rowett's command in the outer works . Captain Smith holding at bay one rebel regiment ...
... Battle of Ben- tonville . March to Goldsboro . Camp at Goldsboro , Arrival of new co mpanies . Consolidation . CHAPTER XVIII . 303-315 Leaving Goldsboro , News of Lee's surrender . Arrival at Raleigh , North Carolina . March to ...
... battle field is now borne to our ears . Its wail has gone to the hearts of a throbbing people . The hearts of the men beat high to carry the flag into the Southland . This part of the Seventh's history I have seen fit to make brief ...