History of the Fourth Regiment of Minnesota Infantry Volunteers During the Great Rebellion, 1861-1865 |
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64 Sept adjutant Albert Lea Allatoona April Army Corps artillery battery battle of Iuka Belle Plaine Benton Barracks bridge brigade camp Capt Captain captured Carver cavalry Chattanooga Colonel command Company F Corinth creek crossed Died Discharged at expiration Discharged by order Discharged for disability discharged July 19 discharged with regiment Distance marched division duty enemy enemy's enlisted expiration of term Fifth Iowa fire Fort Snelling Freeborn front Germany guns hill Illinois Infantry Iowa Iuka John July 19 Lieut Logan Memphis ment miles Minn Missouri morning moved Mower mustered night o'clock officers Ohio order June 12 Owatonna Paul Private promoted corporal quartermaster railroad Ramsey Re-enlisted Jan rear rebel regi regiment July 19 river road Rosecrans Sanborn second lieutenant sergeant Sherman skirmishers Stearns Sueur to-day Tourtellotte town troops Veteran Reserve Corps Vicksburg wagons William wounded York
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Page 231 - ... and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Page 320 - The army will forage liberally on the country during the march. To this end, each brigade commander will organize a good and sufficient foraging party, under the command of one or more discreet officers, who will gather near the route...
Page 399 - General need only remind you that successes in the past are due to hard work and discipline, and that the same work and discipline are equally important in the future. To such as go home, he will only say, that our favored country is so grand, so extensive, so diversified in climate, soil and productions, that every man may...
Page 320 - As for horses, mules, wagons, etc., belonging to the inhabitants, the cavalry and artillery may appropriate freely and without limit; discriminating, however, between the rich, who are usually hostile, and the poor and industrious, usually neutral or friendly.
Page 378 - The Confederate armies now in existence to be disbanded and conducted to their several State capitals, there to deposit their arms and public property in the State arsenal; and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of the State and Federal authority.
Page 320 - To corps commanders alone is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton-gins, etc. ; and for them this general principle is laid down : In districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested, no destruction of such property should be permitted ; but should...
Page 349 - Then cheer upon cheer for bold Sherman Went up from each valley and glen, And the bugles re-echoed the music That came from the lips of the men ; For we knew that the stars...
Page 376 - Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge...
Page 378 - States to be guaranteed, so far as the Executive can, their political rights and franchises, as well as their rights of person and property, as defined by the Constitution of the United States and of the States respectively.
Page 378 - In general terms the war to cease, a general amnesty, so far as the Executive of the United States can command, on condition of the disbandment of the Confederate armies, the distribution of the arms, and the resumption of peaceful pursuits by the officers and men hitherto composing said armies.