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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... remain three and a - half hours . Extri- cating ourselves , we move on and arrive at Fort Holt at 3 P. M. October 6th . This morning , as the morning gun was fired from Fort Prentiss , at Cairo , through some carelessness of the gunner ...
... remain at Fort Holt , working at our houses and performing the regular routine of camp duties until the evening of the sixth of No- vember , when we receive orders to hold ourselves in readiness to move at a moment's notice , in light ...
... remain here until further orders . Colonel Babcock having been absent at St. Louis , on business for the regiment , returns this afternoon . About two o'clock we hear something that sounds very much like thunder . It is the cannon's ...
... remain quietly housed at Fort Holt until the thirteenth of January , 1862 , when we receive marching orders . All is confusion now , preparing for a forward movement . January 14th . - Early this morning the Seventh takes up the line of ...
... remain quietly at Fort Holt , though some- times it seemed that the rapid rise of the Ohio would compel us to evacuate , but the waters subsided with- out submerging us . From the twenty - fifth on until the first of February , I can ...