This morning the command moves by day-light. The Seventh is ordered to
bring the extreme rear from the Chattahoochee to where Companies H and K are
now ordered to assist the pioneers in taking up the pontoons, after which we
move on and join the division at Atlanta, where we find it halted for dinner.
Here we receive our last mail, which brings the commissions for the new
officers of the regiment. The promotions in the veteran organizations are as
follows:
Captain Hector Perrin to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Rowett, promoted.
Captain Edward S. Johnson to be Major, vice Estabrook, term expired.
Commissary Sergeant Frank Morse, to be First Lieutenant and Adjutant,
vice Robinson, killed in battle.
First Lieutenant Benjamin Sweeney to be Captain of Company A, vice
McGuire, term expired.
Quartermaster Sergeant Henry L. Balcom to be First Lieutenant of Company
A, vice Sweeney, promoted.
First Lieutenant Edward R. Roberts (now prisoner of war) to be Captain of
Company C, vice Lawyer, term expired.
Second Lieutenant John Hubbard to be First Lieutenant of Company C, vice
Roberts, promoted.
First Lieutenant Seth Raymond to be Captain of Company D, vice Clark,
term expired.
Private Elias Lorey to be Second Lieutenant of Company E, vice Miller,
term expired.
First Lieutenant Henry Ahern to be Captain of Company F, vice Knowlton,
term expired.
Second Lieutenant Thomas B. Atchison to be First Lieutenant of Company F,
vice Ahern, promoted.
First Sergeant William P, Hackney to be Captain of Company H, vice Ring,
term expired.
Sergeant D. Lieb Ambrose to be First Lieutenant of Company H, vice
Pegram, term expired.
Private William E. Norton to be Captain of Company I, vice Johnson,
promoted.
Private James Crawley to be First Lieutenant of Company I, vice John E.
Sullivan, killed in battle. Second Lieutenant William C. Gillson to be Captain
of Company K, vice Hunter, term expired.
First Sergeant Sanders to be First Lieutenant Company K, vice Partridge,
resigned.
Commissions for the above promotions, with the exception of Lieutenant
Colonel Hector Perrin's, Major Johnson's, and Captain Norton's, were received
by to-day's mail, Lieutenant Colonel Hector Perrin's, Major Johnson's and
Captain Norton's, having been received while in camp at Rome. The regiment is
now newly officered by soldiers who have labored long and faithfully, and
Allatoona tells us that the above list merit well their commissions. This
evening at three o'clock we again move, our division being the last to pass
through Atlanta; we go into camp three miles from the city. Up to this day
communications have kept open. This evening the last train will leave for Nashville,
by which Sherman will send his last dispatches to the Government, and ere the
sun goes down we will have launched forth upon the perilous march. The
destination we know not-everything seems to be clouded in mystery. The camp
fires are now burning as it were upon a thousand hills, as if to rival the
stars above. The boys are all in fine spirits. We to-night behold the
conflagration of the great city. Atlanta is burning. "She sowed to the
wind, she is now reaping the whirlwind."
SOURCE: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 275-8
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