The story of the Sherman brigade. The camp, the march, the bivouac, the battle; and how "the boys" lived and died during four years of active field service, Part 2

Author: Hinman, Wilbur F
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: [Alliance, O.] The author
Number of Pages: 1114


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CHAPTER XXVI. GIRDING FOR ANOTHER CHASE.


We were a Hard Looking Crowd-Rags, Dust and Graybacks-Sol. Banbury's Dilemma-A Rush of New Regiments-The Sev- enty-Third Indiana Joins Our Brigade-Plenty of Rations and a Meager Supply of Clothing, but no Tents-Shooting of General Nelson-Colonel Young Was Demoralized-Orders to March ........ 282


CHAPTER XXVII. AT THE HEELS OF BRAGG.


On the Same Old Road to Bardstown-Woes of the New Troops-How the Veterans Nagged Them-" Drawing" Blankets-Brisk Skir- mishing Ahead-Some Very Hard Marching-Bragg Retreats- A Memorable All night Tramp -Battle of Perryville-We are Idle Spectators-Mysteries That Cannot be Fathomed.


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GHAPTER XXVIII. A PURSUIT THAT DOES NOT PURSUE.


More Charging Through Cornfields and Bramble Thickets-The Har- rodsburg Reconnoissance-Harker's Brigade Has a Campaign of Its Own-Through Danville and Stanford-Cracking Walnuts Un- der Fire-We Push on Beyond Crab Orchard and Then Quit-The "Lame and Impotent Conclusion " of Buell's Campaign. 295


CHAPTER XXIX. ON THE BACK TRACK.


A Furious Reconnoissance to Wildcat-Headed for Nashville-March- ing That Tried Even the Veterans-A Day's Tramp in Rain and Snow-An Awful Night on Picket-Twenty-four Hours Without a Morsel to Eat-A Breakfast of Fresh Pork and Frozen Apples- The Battery Boys Find Friends. 303


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CHAPTER XXX. ONCE MORE AT NASHVILLE.


The Baggage Train Rejoins Us After Two Months Separation-We Get a Few Bell Tents-Eleven Weeks Without Shelter-To Glas- gow and Scottsville-A Day When We Need Skates-A Night Scamper to Gallatin-An Attempt to Surprise John Morgan-But It Failed -- Other Futile Efforts to Catch Cavalry with Infantry- The Horses Outran Us-Doing Penance in the Army-A Big Foray for Forage-At Silver Springs-Then to Nashville.


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CHAPTER XXXI. UNDER "OLD ROSEY."


A Month at Nashville-A Commander Who Will Fight-Preparing for a Launch Forward-Thanksgiving Day in Camp-We Have Something to be Thankful for-The Pioneer Corps-We Get a Few Recruits-Captain Christofel's Idea-Grand Review by Rosecrans-Some Lively Foraging Expeditions-A Wedding and "High Jinks" at Sutler Horner's "Shebang "-The Boys Have Fun with Generals and Colonels 320


CHAPTER XXXII. AN EXCITING HOLIDAY WEEK.


The Advance to Murfreesboro-Through Rain and Mud-Brisk and Frequent Skirmishing -The Music of Bullets and Shell-Our Bri- gade Loses a Number Killed and Wounded-Captain Neeper Dis- abled-The Famous "Cornfield Skirmish "-A Perilous Adventure by Night-Harker's Brigade Crosses Stone River-Advances Bold- ly Upon the Enemy-Is Recalled and Withdraws in Good Order- "Sam" Snider and His Nose. 333


CHAPTER XXXIII. THE FIRST DAY OF STONE RIVER.


The Members of the Sherman Brigade Show their Mettle-We "Gath- er at the River" to Cross and Assail the Enemy-Bragg Strikes First, a Mighty Blow-The Union Right Broken-We are Ordered to its Assistance -- Away at Double-quick-A Scene of Wild Chaos -"Into the Mouth of Hell"- Fierce and Desperate Fighting-Com- rades Fall by Scores-Both Flanks Enveloped-Harker's Brigade Falls Back-Rallies and Renews the Fight-Two Guns of the Bat- tery Captured and Quickly Retaken-The Rebels Hurled Back- Our Sadly Decimated Ranks Gather about the Colors.


CHAPTER XXXIV. "DAYS OF DANGER, NIGHTS OF WAKING."


A Night March Across the Battlefield-Harker's Brigade Returns to the Left Wing-The Rebels make a Strong "Bluff" but are Driven Back-Heavy Artillery Firing-The Sixth Battery on the Picket Line-It Gets into a Tight Place-Fired on from Front and Rear- Bucketfuls of Grape from a Chicago Battery-The Sixty-fourth Catches some of it-Part of the Sixty-fifth Advances from the Out- posts-Friday's Fight on the Left-We Cross and Recross the River-"Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow"-Burying the Dead-Our Heavy Losses.


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CHAPTER XXXV. SPADES ARE TRUMPS.


We do some Heavy Digging and Grumbling-Four Months with Pick and Shovel-The Fortifications Around Murfreesboro-Some Wild Goose Chasing-Our Comfortable Camps-Caring for Our Dead- Mails and Correspondence- The "Unknown" Fair Ones-Changes in our Field Officers-"April Fool" in Camp-A Calamitous Joke on the Sutlers 367


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CHAPTER XXXVI.


STILL AT MURFREESBORO.


Good-bye to our Hoosier Friends-General Wood Leaves us but Re- turns-The Waste of War-Fast Day-We Build a "Church"-A Whirl to Lebanon-Vallandigham-A Homicide in Camp-Phil Sheridan (not the General) and "Happy Jack"-The "Pup" Tent and how it was Received-The Soldier and his "Pard". 378


CHAPTER XXXVII. THE BUGLES SOUND "FORWARD !"


Rosecrans Again Throws Down the Gage of Battle-Once More on the Road-Of Course it Rains- Harvesting a Field of Wheat- Rations are Short-Company D's Shower of Fresh Pork-Bragg Evacuates Tullahoma-We Come to Anchor at Hillsboro-The Doctor, the Stallion and the Jack 390


CHAPTER XXXVIII. SUMMERING AT HILLSBORO.


Blackberries and Mosquitoes -- An Abundance of Both --- Four Months' Greenbacks - Various Happenings in Camp -The Sixty-fourth Gets a New Chaplain-He was Shocked Because we Marched on Sunday-The Mule-drivers Gave Him a Set-back-The Sixth Bat- tery and the Rebel Yankee. 398


CHAPTER XXXIX.


A RAPID PROCESSION OF EVENTS.


The Advance Toward Chattanooga-A Toilsome Climb-In the Sequatchie Valley-We Fare Sumptuously-Crossing the Tennes- see River on Flatboats-A Reconnoisance Under the Shadow of Lookout Mountain-The Rebels Evacuate Chattanooga - Wood's Division Marches in-We Push the Enemy Beyond Lee and Gor- don's Mill-A Week of Constant Skirmishing-Just Before the Battle. 405


CHAPTER XL. CHICKAMAUGA.


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The Battle Opens on the Union Left-We go in Soon After Noon-Se- vere Fighting and Heavy Losses-Officers and Men Fall by Doz- ens-The Sixth Battery Heavily Engaged-The Desperate Con- flict on Sunday-Magnificent Conduct of Harker's Brigade-Ma- jor Brown Mortally Wounded-Captain Bradley Saves His Guns -The Army Falls Back to Chattanooga-The Adventures of Some of Our Wounded 418


CHAPTER XLI. TWO MONTHS "BOTTLED UP."


Besieged in Chattanooga-Digging and Picketing-Pinched for Food -Rations Reduced to One Quarter-The Sixth Battery in Fort Wood-"Phil" Sheridan Commands Our Division-"Joe" Hooker Arrives-The Cracker-line Reopened - Ohio Soldiers Vote for Brough-Execution of Two Deserters-Grant Takes Command- Preparing to Burst the Fetters.


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CHAPTER XLII. MISSIONARY RIDGE.


Sherman's Effort to Break the Confederate Right-The "Battle Above the Clouds"-Orchard Knob Taken -Four Divisions of Thomas Sweep Missionary Ridge-A Magnificent Assault-Sheri- dan and Harker-The Crest Carried-Rout of the Rebels-Chicka- mauga is Avenged-Sheridan's Pursuit-A Victory Won by the Rank . and File-Our Losses- Grant and Thomas on Orchard Knob-Grewsome Sights on the Field


CHAPTER XLIII. A DREARY MIDWINTER CAMPAIGN.


Burnside in Peril-On to Knoxville-Marching and Bivouacking in Rain and Mud-Crossing the Hiawassee-Longstreet Gives it up and Raises the Siege-Strawberry Plains and Blaine's Cross Roads-Cold and Hunger-A Wretched Month-Harker's Brigade of Ragged "Hoboes"


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CHAPTER XLIV. "THREE YEARS MORE."


We Re-enlist and Get a Furlough-The "Veteran" Craze-It Goes Through the Sherman Brigade Like the Small-pox-Four Hundred Dollars Bounty and Thirty Days at Home-This Catches the Bovs -Drawing Cuts for the First Trip Home-The Sixty-fourth is Lucky-It Starts for Ohio in a Bedlam of Shouts and Yells-It Re- turns to the Front.


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CHAPTER XLV. HOME AND BACK TO THE FRONT.


Adventures of a "Convalescent" Detachment- Phil Sheridan Wants a Coffin-The "Coffee Coolers" Whip Joe Wheeler-The March to Blaine's Cross-roads-Cavorting about East Tennessee-The Sixty-fifth gets its Furlough-Re-enlistment of the Sixth Battery -Now for Atlanta. 481


CHAPTER XLVI. WHICH TELLS OF VARIOUS THINGS.


Some Observations Concerning Portions of a Soldier's Outfit-White and Black Haversacks-The Canteen and Its Varying Contents- Its Post-mortem Usefulness-The Poncho or " Gum Blanket"-Pop- ular Delusions Regarding the Bayonet-Its Practical Uses-Corps Badges-Slang Phrases in the Army-" Fac-Simile" Confederate Money 499


CHAPTER XLVII. FIGHTING TOWARD ATLANTA,


Opening of the Great Campaign-The Confronting Armies-A Few General Observations-Harker's Brigade Climbs Rocky-face Ridge-The Desperate Struggle on the Crest-Superb Gallantry of the Sixty-fourth-Its Severe Loss-Death of Colonel Mcilvaine -We Descend the Ridge ..


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CHAPTER XLVIII. DALTON TO BIG SHANTY.


Fighting and Chasing-The Rebels Fall Back Across the Etowah- Adjutant Woodruff Gets a Tumble-A Few Days for Breath-The Flank Movement to New Hope-Warm Days in the Trenches- Colonel Harker Made a Brigadier-Buckwheat Biscuits for the Battery Officers-A Penitent Chaplain. 525


CHAPTER XLIX. KENNESAW.


Still Fighting and Intrenching-Lieutenant Bingham Killed -- The Waste of Ammunition-Hundreds of Bullets Fired for each Man Struck-The Lines at Marietta-The Assault upon Kennesaw- Harker's Brigade Leads -- Desperate Fighting and Severe Losses -Death of General Harker -- Colonel Whitbeck Dangerously Wounded -- Captain Williams Killed 540


CHAPTER L. THE BATTERY'S ADVENTURES.


Close Quarters at Resaca-A Brave Kentuckian- Warmly Engaged at Pickett's Mill-Two of the Battery Men Killed-Another Fatal Shell-Saved by a Letter-Night Bombardment of Kennesaw- A Superb Spectacle. 553


CHAPTER LI. ANOTHER STRIDE FORWARD.


A Rebel Captain Taken in-Johnston Evacuates Marietta-Another Fourth of July-An Unexpected Explosion in the Battery-A View of Atlanta-Death of Lieutenant Avres-A Wild Rush to Roswell and Back-Across the Chattahoochee-Adventure with Rebel Artillery - Colonel Opdycke's Definition of a "Forlorn Hope " 565


CHAPTER LII. CLOSE AROUND ATLANTA.


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CHAPTER LIII. "ATLANTA IS OURS, AND FAIRLY WON !"


Sherman's Perplexing Problem-How it is Solved-Another Great Flank Movement-The Rebels Rejoice too Previously-Destroy- ing a Railroad-Hood Yields the Prize-At Lovejoy's Station - Farewell to the Third Kentucky -- Back to Atlanta-Our Losses During the Campaign-A Brief Sojourn in a Pleasant Camp .........


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CHAPTER LIV. MORE ABOUT THE BATTERY.


Its Constant and Arduous Duty-Frequent Use for the Guns- Mourning for Lieutenant Ayres-Before Atlanta-After the Evacu- ation-New Guns and a Month of Rest 602


CHAPTER LV. WHIRLING NORTHWARD.


General Hood Evolves a New Scheme-We Break Camp in a Hurry- By Rail Back to Chattanooga-Three Weeks at Bridgeport and Whitesides-Hood Moves Swiftly Northward-Sherman at His Heels-Again at Chattanooga-Then . We Gallop to Alpine -- A Great Joke on Moores and Bell-How an Evening Call Upon a Pretty Girl Was Spoiled-To Chattanooga Once More-The Sixty- Fourth and Sixty-fifth Get Reinforcements. ( 14


CHAPTER LVI. HOOD ENTERS TENNESSEE.


Off by Rail to Athens-A Muddy Tramp to Pulaski-A Cold Bath in Elk River-We Vote for President-Disclosure of Hood's Plan- He Crosses the Tennessee River-Sherman's Dispositions and Movements-Thomas and Schofield-The Battery's Return from Atlanta-The Retreat to Columbia-The Canter to Spring Hill ..... 627


CHAPTER LVII. SPRING HILL.


Schofield's Army in Great Peril-Cheatham's Attack Upon Wagner- The Sixty-fourth Wins Laurels on the Skirmish Line-Bradley's Brigade Bears the Brunt-All Assaults Repelled-The Sixty-fifth Gets Out of a Tight Pinch-Cheatham Gives it up-The Union Army Marches Safely Past the Enemy's Bivouac Fires-Narrow Escape from a Grave Disaster-The Story as Told by General Hood 636


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FRANKLIN.


The Night March From Spring Hill-A Stupendous Blunder-The Brigades of Conrad and Lane Sufferers Thereby-Ordered to hold an Advanced Position to the Last Extremity-The Inevitable Con- sequence-Furious and Bloody Fighting-The Awful Slaughter- The Rebels Defeated-Schofield Retires to Nashville. 651


CHAPTER LIX. WHAT THE BATTERY DID.


A Bivouac at Spring Hill-An Alarm and a Scamper-The Guns in Position-Overlooked in the Retreat-A Cheerful Prospect-A Perilous Passage-The Fence Corners Full of Rebels-Saving the Wagon Train-Thanks from the Generals-Fierce Firing at Franklin-Ghastly Scenes on the Field-Falling Back to Nash- ville



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CHAPTER LX.


NASHVILLE.


Two Weeks of Waiting -- Our Non-veterans go Home-Impatience at Washington-The Ground Coated with Ice-Thomas Commands "Forward "" -- Two Days of Fighting-The Rebels Driven in Rout and Panic -- Hood's Army Well-nigh Destroved -- The Union Sol- diers Wild with Joy-The Pursuit Through Fathomless Mud -- We Live on Parched Corn, but are Happy-Results of the Campaign ... 675


CHAPTER LXI. TEN LAZY WEEKS.


At Madison Station and Athens-Broken into Detachments to Garri -. son Blockhouses-Field and Staff of the Sixty-fifth in Luxurious Quarters -- Called Down by the General -- Social Gayety at Moores- ville-Two Young Officers in a Dilemma -- The Sixty-fourth at Athens -- An Insurrection Caused by Eggs-Colonel Brown and Major Coulter Resign-The Officers Give them a Farewell "Blow- out"-Quartermaster Tip Marvin and Doctor Quinn "Gobbled" by the Johnnies -- How they Got Back to the Regiment-Charley Baker and the Judge-How Doctor Quinn Played it on Chaplain Thompson.


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CHAPTER LXII. "OH, WHAT A NIGHT!"


Once More in East Tennessee-The Stay at Blue Springs-A Dispatch Announcing the Surrender of Lee's Army to Grant-The Tidings Cause a Prodigious Uproar-A Wild, Hilarious Night-The Camp a Literal Pandemonium-A Hurricane of Joy and Enthusiasm- A Terrible Revulsion-News of the Assassination of President Lincoln-Strong Men Weep Like Children-Thoughts of Going


706 Home -- The Sixth Battery's Adventures


CHAPTER LXIII. AGAIN AT NASHVILLE.


All the Way by Rail -- Domiciled in Camp Harker-Looking in vain for the Order to be Mustered Out-Grand Review of the Fourth Corps-Congratulatory Order by General Thomas -- Fatal Acci- dent to a Sixty-fifth Officer -- A Lady Guest at Headquarters- Effect Upon the Young Officers-General Grant's Farewell Or- der


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CHAPTER LXIV. NEW ORLEANS.


An Order that Provokes a Mutiny -- The Fourth Corps Veterans Em- bark for Texas -- A Rebellious Spirit Manifested-Prospect of Se- rious Trouble at Cairo-Fortunately it Blows Over and Nobody is Hurt-Trip Down the Mississippi-A Sickly Camp at New Or- leans-A Change of Commanders-General Sheridan Visits His Old Division -- Good-bye to the Sixth Battery-It is Mustered Out. 726


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CHAPTER LXV.


LAND-LUBBERS AT SEA.


We Embark for the " Lone Star" State-On Board the Steamer Daniel Webster-A Fine Trip to the Mouth of the Mississippi- . . On the Gulf It Is Not Pleasant But Quite the Reverse-The Awful Ravages of Seasickness - The Veterans Conquered at Last - The Unique Experience of Major Orlow Smith-At Anchor off Mata- gorda Bay-Transferred by Lighters to Lavaca-"Camp Irwin," on the Arid Plains of Texas. 74€


CHAPTER LXVI. LIFE ON THE TEXAS PLAINS.


Railroad Building Under a Broiling Sun-The Sixty fourth Stays Two Months Longer at New Orleans -Rejoins the Brigade in Septem. ber-Enlarging Our Knowledge of Natural History -Mosquitoes by Millions -Tarantulas, Centipeds, Coyotes and Horned Toads- -Abundance of Pecans-Fresh Beef Galore .. 748


CHAPTER LXVII. LAST DAYS OF OUR SERVICE.


Pleasure Trips to Lavaca-A Naval Catastrophe-Officers at a Negro Ball-Watching for the Muster-out Order-Captain Charley Baker's Story-The Fifty-first Illinois Goes Home, Which Gives Us Hope-Camp Sherman -- Texas Northers-A Wrecked and Deluged Camp-Major Orlow Smith and His Pipe-Lieutenant Kanel's Joke-Promotions that Did Not Promote. 70}


CHAPTER LXVIII. "HOME, SWEET HOME."


Release Comes at Last-The Order .o be Discharged-Unwinding Red Tape-The Rush to Complete the Rolls-The Sixty-fifth Gets Away First-Last Night in Camp-The Trip to Columbus-Paid off and Disbanded-The Sixty fourth Joins the Procession-The Tribulations of "Happy jack "-But he Gets the Laugh on the Boys-Chaplain Thompson's Mocking-birds -- At Camp Chase- "Break Ranks." 774


CHAPTER LXIX. WHICH TREATS OF VARIOUS THINGS.


A Tribute to General Charles G. Harker-A Visit to His Boyhood Home by Hon. Washington Gardner-Young Soldiers of the Sher- man Brigade - How John C. Weber Got into the Battery-Ages of the Men at Enlistment-Some Interesting Facts and Figures - Flags that Went through the Storms of Battle-The Chickamauga Monuments-The Sultana Disaster-Casualties in the Sherman Brigade-Schedule of our Long Pilgrimage-Distances Traveled -Odds and Ends Gathered up


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MCLAUGHLIN'S SQUADRON. CHAPTER LXX. TAKING THE FIELD.


Up the Ohio to Catlettsburg-Campaigning in Eastern Kentucky- "Boots and Saddles "-A Scramble to Arms-Lessons in Foraging -Major Mclaughlin and the Goose-Lieutenant Fisher's Pig's Feet-Under Colonel James A Garfield-Battle of Middle Creek ... 817


CHAPTER LXXI. CAMPING ON THE BIG SANDY.


Four Weeks of Comparative Quiet - Guerrilla Warfare - Major Witcher and His Horse-The Engagement at Pound Gap-Trip to Whitesburg-A Whirl to Gladesville-Rebel Prisoners and Their Sweethearts -- A Brisk Action at Piketon. 827


CHAPTER LXXII. ALONG TWO RIVERS.


Riding Day and Night-Trip to West Liberty-Death of Major Mc- Laughlin-Lively Days at Paintsville-Dull and Hot at Louisa- A Few Get Furloughs-Down the Big Sandy and up the Ohio-Op- erations in the Kanawha Region-Once More Back to Louisa-A Cold and Cheerless December-A Story About Horses. 836


CHAPTER LXXIII. A LONG STAY AT LOUISA.


A Cheerless Winter Camp-Resignation of Major McFall-George Eastman's Rehearsal-Jonas Fought and the Black Pony-Scout- ing and More Scouting-Fruitless Chase of : Rebel Wagon Train -After Captain " Bill " Smith-The Boys Get Pup Tents-" Jim " Makes the Grand Rounds with Captain Skeggs-The Fight at Gladesville. 849


CHAPTER LXXIV. KNOXVILLE.


Turmoil in the Camp on the Big Sandy-Fine Outlook for Business- The Squadron Ordered to Cincinnati -- Thence to Lexington, Ken- tucky-The Long March to Knoxville-The City Occupied-The Squadron at Headquarters-Belcaguered by Longstreet-Incidents of the Siege-The Confederate Assault upon Fort Sanders-Ap- proach of Sherman's Army -- The Siege Raised. 862


CHAPTER LXXV. TRANSFORMED INTO VETERANS.


The Boys Re-enlist for Three Years More-Home on Thirty Days' Furlough-Back to Camp Nelson-The Squadron Joins Stone- man's Cavalry Division -- A Complete New Outfit-The Cavalry- man and his Horse-Long March to the Front-Reaches Sher- man's Army at Big Shanty, Georgia-Now Look out for Business !.. 877


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CHAPTER LXXVI.


THE STONEMAN RAID-ATLANTA.


A Circuit South of Atlanta-After the Rebel Lines of Supply-Stone- man's Division Reaches Macon-Encounters General Wheeler -- Battle of Sunshine Church-The Squadron Sacrificed to Save Others-Half of its Men Killed, Wounded or Captured-Experi- ences of those who Escaped -- Some Interesting Personal Incidents -The Squadron Rides into Atlanta 884


CHAPTER LXXVII. THE MARCH TO THE SEA.


Pleasant Days at Atlanta-Hood Launches His Troops Northward -- Sherman Divides His Army -- With Sixty Thousand Men He Starts for Savannah -- The Squadron under Kilpatrick - Hard Scouting and Fighting-The Army Fares Sumptuously-Arrival at Savannah -- The City Evacuated-Forty Days without Mail ...... 808


CHAPTER LXXVIII. THROUGH THE CAROLINA SWAMPS.


The Toilsome March from Savannah to Fayetteville-Exposure, Fa- tigue, Hunger and Prodigious Labor-Splashing through Mud aud Water-Sleeping on Beds of Logs, Rails and Boughs --- Crossing Great Rivers -- Constant Skirmishing with Wheeler and Hampton -Fayetteville Reached after Six Weeks of Toil and Suffering ..... 908


CHAPTER LXXIX. THE FINAL ROUND-UP.


The Advance from Fayetteville-Averysboro and Bentonville-Three Weeks at Goldsboro-Fall of Richmond and Surrender of Lee -- The Army Frantic with Joy -- Joe Johnson Quits -- End of the Long Struggle-Kilpatrick's Division Mustered out -- But the Squadron has to Stay -- Six Months in North Carolina -- Various Happenings, Personal and Otherwise-"There's no Place Like Home." 910


Roster of the Sherman Brigade 933


Sixty-fourth Regiment. 935


Sixty-fifth Regiment. 1007 Sixth Battery. 1008


McLaughlin's Squadron IOS1


Roll of the Dead. 1098


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List of Illustrations.


GENERAL OFFICERS.


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Bradley, Luther P., Colonel Fifty-first Illinois: Brigadier-general (full


page) 576


Buell, Don Carlos, Major-general (full page) 459


Conrad, Joseph, Colonel Fifteenth Missouri; Brigadier-general (full page) ... 619


Crittenden, Thomas L., Major-general (full page).


Elliott, Washington L., Brigadier-general (full page) 271


Garfield, James A., Brigadier-general (full page) .. 757


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Granger, Robert S., Major Fifth United States Infantry (full page). 639


Grant, Ulysses S., Major-general (full page) .. 589


Harker, Charles Garrison, Colonel Sixty-fifth; Brigadier-general (full page). Frontispiece


Howard, Oliver O., Major-general (full page). 532


Newton, John, Brigadier general (full page). 605


Opdycke, Emerson, Colonel One hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio; Brevet Major-general (full page). 733


Rosecrans, William S., Major-general (full page)


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Sheridan, Philip H., Major-general (full page) .. 566


Sherman, John, Colonel Sixty-fourth; United States Senator (full page). Frontispiece


Sherman, William Tecumseh, Major-general (full page). 543


Stanley, David S., Major-general (full page). 662


Thomas, George H., Major-general (full page. 319


Wood, Thomas J., Major-general (full page) 62


ILLUSTRATIONS.


SIXTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.


Anderson, Alfred G., Hospital Steward,


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Anderson, Hugh P., Surgeon. 760


Andrews, Joseph, Sergeant, Company C, and First Lieutenant. 409


Ashley, Frank, Corporal, Company H 552


Baker, Charles E., Captain .. 105


Barker, Samuel B., Sergeant-major.


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Beerbower, Samuel T., First Sergeant, Company B.


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Bell, Hiram, Sergeant, Company A


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Bilsing, Henry H., Company K


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Bittinger, Jacob G., Captain


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Bowser, Martin, Company C.


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Brinkerhoff, Roeliff, Quartermaster, Captain A. Q. M., and Brevet- Brigadier General (full page). 497


Brown, Norman K., Lieutenant-colonel (full page)


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Brubaker, David R., Company G ..


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Campbell, Samuel, Quartermaster-sergeant.


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Carr, Dudley C., Captain ..


Cashell, Jesse, Sergeant, Company C ..


Cavnah Henry A., Sergeant, Company I


Chamberlain, Robert S., Captain.


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Clark, Henry H., Sergeant, Company G


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Coe, Joseph W., Company E.


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Coe, Nathaniel McD., Sergeant, Company E


Conn, Leonard C., Sergeant, Company F 439


Cotter, William, Company G. 526


Coulter, Samuel L., Lieutenant-colonel (full page)


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Cummins, David S., Captain ..


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Dewees, Samuel T., Company I.


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Dillon, William A., First Lieutenant


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Farber, William H., Captain


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Ferguson, John, Colonel (full page).


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Ferguson, Joseph B., Captain.


Fields, Matthew S., Company B 407


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Fields, William, Sergeant Company B.


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Fies, William, Sergeant, Company B.


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Fisher, George, Sergeant, Company B. 555


Pangle, Samuel, Sergeant, Company F 705


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Bevoe, Joseph, Company F. 736


Brown, Robert C., Colonel (full page) .. 521


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Christy, William, Corporal, Company C ..


Cluff, Daniel W., Corporal, Company F


Ehlers, Thomas H., First Lieutenant


Feighner, Jonas, Company H


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Fisher, Henry M., Sergeant, Company K


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Flora, William A., Corporal, Company H 720


Gass, Isaac, Lieutenant-colonel (full page)


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Gillis, John A., First Lieutenant.


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Gowing, Christian M., Captain.


Hahn, William M., Musician, Company H


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Hall, James L., Sergeant, Company G.


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Hancock, Alonzo W., Captain. 279


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Hetherington, Wesley, Company A.


Hildenbrand, Henry, Company B.


Hoffman, John, Corporal, Company G


Holden, William, Captain.


Horn, John, Sergeant, Company I


Houser, Jefferson A., Corporal, Company 1.


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Howe, Daniel, Second Lieutenant.


Hutchinson, George M., Sergeant, Company B 672 503


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Keiser, Michael, Captain.


King, John B., First Sergeant, Company D


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Lawrence, Harrison, Captain ..


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. Leidigh, John W., Sergeant-major and Second Lieutenant.


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Long, Jacob, Company 1


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Lybold, Andrew, First Lieutenant


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McCollom, Stephen A., Adjutant.


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Mcilvaine, Alexander, Colonel (full page).


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Mc.'arland, Robert C., Sergeant, Company E.


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Main, John V. B., Sergeant, Company E


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Mallory, Silas S., Principal Musician 697


Martin, John, Corporal, Company I


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Marvin, George F., Sergeant, Company H


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Marvin, Daniel S., Company H.


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Marvin, Tip S., First Lieutenant and Quartermaster


490 702


Moore, George R., Musician, Company B.


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Moser, Joseph E., Company C.


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Murray, John, Company G. 729


Myers, Lorenzo D .. Quartermaster, Captain and A. Q. M 393 Neeper, Samuel, Captain. 759


Noeltner, Augustus, First Sergeant, Company B 570


Pangle, Samuel, Sergeant, Company F. 705


Parkison, Thomas, Corporal, Company E 676


Parr, Henry C., First Sergeant, Company E. 455




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