The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers: Or A Three Years' Campaign Through Missour, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, with a Description of the Country, Towns, Skirmishes and Battles...hall & Hutchinson, printers, 1865 - 243 pages |
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... river to Howell's Island , where he captured five valuable steam- boats from the hands of the rebels , who were about to use them to cross their forces to the south side , to join the rebel General Price . The total value of property ...
... river to Howell's Island , where he captured five valuable steam- boats from the hands of the rebels , who were about to use them to cross their forces to the south side , to join the rebel General Price . The total value of property ...
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... river for embarkation . The old and rickety steamer War Eagle lay in waiting , with steam up , to receive them . A very pleasant and lively time was passed in going up , and on their arrival at Jefferson City , a pretty camping ground ...
... river for embarkation . The old and rickety steamer War Eagle lay in waiting , with steam up , to receive them . A very pleasant and lively time was passed in going up , and on their arrival at Jefferson City , a pretty camping ground ...
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... River . It seems to be quite a flourishing place , and has something of an inland trade . The country in the vicinity is good and under good cultiva- tion , and the improvements on the adjoining farms are excellent . The land is ...
... River . It seems to be quite a flourishing place , and has something of an inland trade . The country in the vicinity is good and under good cultiva- tion , and the improvements on the adjoining farms are excellent . The land is ...
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... river , lived a wealthy old rebel sympathiser , who possessed several mules and some fine horses , which the boys took a fancy to , and concluded they must have . The old gentleman stub- bornly refused to give them up , and made threats ...
... river , lived a wealthy old rebel sympathiser , who possessed several mules and some fine horses , which the boys took a fancy to , and concluded they must have . The old gentleman stub- bornly refused to give them up , and made threats ...
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... river . It numbers from three to five hundred inhabitants , most of whom are very indifferent to the Union cause . No manifestations of rejoicing were shown on the approach of the noble men who were coming to protect them from the ...
... river . It numbers from three to five hundred inhabitants , most of whom are very indifferent to the Union cause . No manifestations of rejoicing were shown on the approach of the noble men who were coming to protect them from the ...
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advance arrived battery battle bivouac Boonville boys brave brigade Buell Captain captured Cassville cavalry charge Chattanooga Colonel Frederick Colonel Sigel command Company F Corinth Creek Cross Timbers Davis division enemy eral field Fifty-Ninth Illinois fight fire Fremont front going into camp guard guns Halleck horses hospital Humansville hundred Illinois Regiment infantry Iuka Jacinto Jefferson City Kelly killed Lamoine lay in camp leaving Boonville Lebanon Leetown Lieutenant Louis Louisville Major Maynard ment miles morning mountain mules Murfreesboro Nashville negro night Ninth Missouri Nolensville o'clock officers Osage Osage river Otterville passed Pea Ridge pickets position Price prisoners ranks rear rebel army regi regiment moved retreat returned road Rosecranz Rumor sent shell shot sick Sidney Post skirmishers soldiers soon Springfield Springs Surgeon Syracuse taken Tennessee River tents thousand tion town train troops Union Union army valley wagons wounded
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