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The Badax Tigers : from Shiloh to the surrender with the 18th Wisconsin Volunteers / edited by Thomas P. Nanzig.
Van Pelt Library E537.5 18th .B33 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 18th (1861-1865).
- United States.
- Davis, Thomas Jefferson, 1832-1915--Correspondence.
- Davis, Thomas Jefferson.
- Davis, Thomas Jefferson, 1832-1915.
- History.
- Regimental histories.
- Soldiers.
- Wisconsin.
- Soldiers--Wisconsin--Correspondence.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Wisconsin--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Wisconsin--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal narratives.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]
- Summary:
- This intimate unit history of the Badax Tigers chronicles the experiences of Company C of the 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the entire Civil War as seen through the eyes of Private Thomas Jefferson Davis. Davis's letters provide an extraordinarily complete picture of a typical Federal volunteer company in the Civil War and are supplemented by newspaper articles and letters of other soldiers.
- Contents:
- 1 They Had About Become Bare-Assed Tigers 11
- 2 Events of No Ordinary Character 35
- 3 We Live As Woodchucks 53
- 4 The Sound Was Anything But Musical 105
- 5 The Canal That General Butler Commenced 135
- 6 Closed Up Snugly Around Vicksburg 159
- 7 They Have Kept Us Jogging Pretty Good 193
- 8 An Open Confession Is Good for the Soul 219
- 9 Sherman Is Slowly Driving the Rebs 257
- 10 We Dosed Them with Blue Pills 281
- 11 The News Is Glorious and the Future Is Bright 293
- 12 I Will Never Be a Military Dog 321
- 18th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Statistics 339
- 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Organizational Chart: 1862-1865 341
- Roster of Company C, 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry 343
- Badax Tigers Statistics 349.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742520846
- OCLC:
- 47863204
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