This morning the Seventh takes the left flank, the Ninth Illinois the right. We pass through a wild country to-day: hills and rocks seem to ...

This morning at the first tap of the drum we are up, and soon on the move. About noon we arrive at Tuscumbia; the enemy having all retreated...

This morning the boys are compelled to wend their way to the woods to obtain fuel. It remains extremely cold. Hark! what do we hear? Marchin...

The duties of the regiments now stationed at Corinth, are very arduous. Almost every day a regiment or two are called upon to make a trip ei...

Same camp, May 10, 1864. The 9th Illinois Infantry lost about 30 men, killed, wounded and missing, yesterday. We find the enemy too str...

May 9, 1864. Yesterday we traveled southeast, crossing six or seven ridges, one or two of which were quite high. Taylor's was the h...

Cairo. We had blankets given us this last week and new accoutrements throughout. If they would only change our guns now we would have nothi...

Lots of men come through here with their backs blue and bloody from beatings; and nine in ten of them got their marks in Memphis. A man fro...

We remained in bivouac all day. The Fifteenth Corps just came in on a road to our left and is to cross the Pedee ahead of the Seventeenth. ...

New York , May 24, 1861. Dear Sumner , — I have hesitated a long time whether I ought to write to you in an affair, trifling for every ...

New York , May 11, 1861. I must write to you, my dear Hillard, although I have nothing to state, to give, or to ask, except, indeed, wh...

No. 18. Report of Col. James M. Tuttle, Second Iowa Infantry, Commanding Second Division and First Brigade. HEADQUARTERS FIRST BR...

November 22, 1906 _____ 9:45 A.M. Music: Fifty-fifth Iowa Regimental Band "Lead, Kindly Light" Introduction of Sp...

Private, Co. D, 9th Illinois Infantry Died January 26, 1864, Athens, Alabama Stones River National Cemetery Murfreesboro, Tennes...

FT. DONELSON, via CAIRO, Feb. 20. – The number of field pieces taken in the Union victory here is much larger than heretofore telegraphed.  ...

CAIRO, Feb. 26. The casualties of the battle of Fort Donelson will run up much higher than was at first supposed, at least five hundred wer...

FORT DONELSON, Tuesday night, VIA CAIRO, Feb. 20. The number of field pieces taken in the Union victory here, is much larger than heretofor...

Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., August 10, 1861. At Jacksonville, Ill., till September 1. Moved to Cairo, Ill., September 1, and duty there ...

FORT DONELSON INVESTED. A Battle Progressing. THE SEVENTH IOWA AGAIN WINNING LAURELS. CAIRO, Feb. 14. Capt. C. M. Williard, Co. A. Chica...

Was born in Adams County, Ohio, June 2d, 1821. He was trained as a farmer, receiving a common school education. In the Spring of 1841, he co...