Army Life : From a Soldier's Journal.
Material type: TextSeries: The Civil War in the WestPublisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (362 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781610750455Subject(s): Marshall, Albert OGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Army Life : From a Soldier's JournalDDC classification: 973.7/81 LOC classification: E505Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Editor's Introduction -- Preface -- Chapter I. Leaving Home. -- Chapter II. At Pilot Knob. -- Chapter III. In Winter Quarters. -- Chapter IV. Leaving Arcadia Seminary - The Farewell Speech. -- Chapter V. In Camp At Batesville. -- Chapter VI. Battle Of Cache River. -- Chapter VII. After The Battle. -- Chapter VIII. From Helena To Old Town - Lively Times - Gathering Cotton and Fighting Rebels. -- Chapter IX. Northward Bound. -- Chapter X. From Pilot Knob To Van Buren - The Army Mule, Etc. -- Chapter XI. We Return To Pilot Knob. -- Chapter XII. A Public Meeting. -- Chapter XIII. Down The Mississippi. -- Chapter XIV. Confederate Newspapers - Errors Of Southern Opinion. -- Chapter XV. Magnolia Hills. -- Chapter XVI. Battle Of Champion Hills. -- Chapter XVII. Battle Of Black River. -- Chapter XVIII. Vicksburg. -- Chapter XIX. The Siege Of Vicksburg. -- Chapter XX. Charge Upon Vicksburg. -- Chapter XXI. After The Surrender. -- Chapter XXII. At Brashear City. -- Chapter XXIII. March Up The Teche Valley. -- Chapter XXIV. To Texas. -- Chapter XXV. First March In Texas. -- Chapter XXVI. Advance Upon, and Capture Of Fort Esparenza. -- Chapter XXVII. In Winter Quarters At Indianola. -- Chapter XXVIII. The Year 1863 As Viewed By A Soldier - An Army Newspaper - Short Rations. -- Chapter XXIX. With The Ninety-Ninth Illinois. -- Chapter XXX. National Questions - Abolishing Slavery - Honest Voting - The Presidency - Views Of A Private Soldier. -- Chapter XXXI. We Leave Texas and Return To Louisiana. -- Chapter XXXII. From New Orleans To New York and Thence To Illinois. -- Chapter XXXIII. The End Of My Soldier Life - Home Again. -- Appendix A: The Normal Picket -- Appendix B: A Soldier's Letter -- Appendix C: The Thirty-third in Print -- Appendix D: Problems with Cotton -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Albert O. Marshall was born in 1840 on a farm in Illinois. He served in the Thirty-Third Illinois Regiment for three years, after which he became a lawyer and was elected to a four-year term in the state senate and later to the county court as a circuit court judge.
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