The history of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois VolunteersReprint of the original, first published in 1865. Or a three years campaign through Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, with a description of the country, towns, skirmishes and battles incidents, casualties and anecdotes met with on the way, and embellished with twenty-four lithographed portraits of the officers of the regiment. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 15 |
Section 3 | 20 |
Section 4 | 24 |
Section 5 | 27 |
Section 6 | 32 |
Section 7 | 38 |
Section 8 | 49 |
Section 12 | 103 |
Section 13 | 110 |
Section 14 | 118 |
Section 15 | 129 |
Section 16 | 136 |
Section 17 | 143 |
Section 18 | 147 |
Section 19 | 162 |
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