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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... 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 ...
... boys on its summit . Leaving Chattanooga . Camp on Chicamauga . Moving down the Railroad . Camp at Tunnel Hill ... boy , Hood contriving to move northward . General Sherman . Indications of some gigan- tic movement . CHAPTER XVI . 273 ...
... boys are often seen on its summits ( standing . as it were amid the clouds ) looking down in the valley . While here the regiment is uniformed - and the Seventh's boys will remember those striped uniforms which made them look like ...
... boys were made to understand him , and around the camp - fires these men sat that night eating their supper and laughing most heartily , for we noticed that they were masticating some old fat hens . Of course the officer's orders were ...
... boys are now all still . How nobly they all look as their eyes are closed , with the shadow of the pale moon playing upon their faces . We are wont to feel sad when we look around here and know that in this war for the Union some of ...