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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... dark night of war . The fair goddess sat weeping as she beheld the danger . Tears fell like dew drops , when the harsh music from the lowly bondman's chains was wafted to her ears from Pennsylvania Avenue . It was in the last days of ...
... darker . On the night of the thirteenth of April , 1861 , a glaring light might have been seen flashing along the horizon's bar down by the Atlantic . The four- teenth dawns , and from the ramparts of Fort Sum- ter war's dread tocsin is ...
... dark pines swayed by a fierce wind , and we imagine we see the march and tramp of a grand army that will make pale the nations of the earth . The news goes home to Europe , and a voice comes rolling back , like the organic swell of ...
... dark recesses with much gusto . During our stay here , the regiment was every day marched out on the city commons by Colonel Cook , and there exercised in the manual of arms and the battallion evolutions , until they attained a ...
... dark picture ! They are fallen rebel soldiers . The thirty who re- mained in the Fort and worked the guns in those hours of darkness , have been excavated from the rubbish . It is sad to think how they fell ; how they died fighting ...