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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... Flags of truce : Battle of Town Creek : Crossing Town Creek : Following the enemy : March back to Corinth : Destruction of property : Swimming Bear River : Arrival at Iuka : Arrival at Corinth : Receiv ing news concerning the fall of ...
... flag . General Cook's speech . Hospitality of the people . Seventh at home . CHAPTER XIII . 225-243 Rendezvous at Camp Butler . Southward bound , Arrival at Louisville . Arrival at Nashville . Zollicoffer House . Arrival at Pulaski ...
... flag of truce to negotiate an exchange , Bad Faith of the rebel Colonel Johnson . Regiment dismounted , CHAPTER XIV . 244-250 Leave Athens for Chattanooga . Arrival at Chattanooga . Lookout Mountain . Seventh boys on its summit ...
... flag . " LINCOLN enters upon his duties ; curtains of gloom are flung around him . But in Him who bid faith lean upon His arm and hope to dip her pinions in His blood and mount to the skies , he trusts . The secession movement had been ...
... flag has been struck down to - day . " The North's powerful millions seem to surge like tall , 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 ...