Army life from a soldier's journal : incidents, sketches and record of a Union soldier's army life, in camp and field, 1861-64 /
by Albert O Marshall ; edited and annotated by Robert G. Schultz.
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- The Civil War in the West .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Early soldier life -- In Missouri: battle of Fredericktown -- In winter quarters at Arcadia, Missouri -- Our first march southward -- In Arkansas: an insulate and destitute army -- Battle of Cache River -- After the battle: hard march to the Mississippi River -- Skirmishing, and confiscating cotton -- Return to the north: a winter campaign in southern Missouri -- Our winter campaign, continued -- Return to Pilot Knob -- A public meeting: last march in Missouri -- Down the Mississippi -- Across the Vicksburg side of the river -- Magnolia Hills: to the rear of Vicksburg -- Battle of Champion Hills -- Battle of Black River -- Vicksburg -- Siege of Vicksburg -- Charge upon Vicksburg: a few incidents -- With the army of the gulf -- In Louisiana -- Up the Teche Valley -- On the Gulf of Mexico -- In Texas -- Capture of Fort Esparenza -- In winter quarters at Indianola, Texas -- Re-enlistment of the thirty-third -- With the ninety-ninth -- Slavery, the ballot and the presidency: an essay -- Return from Texas to Louisiana -- From New Orleans to New York, and thence to Illinois -- Mustered out: home again.
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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United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1861-1865) United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1861-1865)