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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Albert O., 1840-1914.
- Series:
- Civil War in the West.
- The Civil War in the West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marshall, Albert O., 1840-1914.
- Marshall, Albert O.
- United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1861-1865).
- United States.
- Armies--United States.
- Armies.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 340 p. : ill., maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1884, when Albert O.Marshall published Army Life, a memoir of his service as a private in the Thirty-Third Illinois Regiment, twenty years had passed since his 1864 discharge.Marshall left the journal untouched at publication, and today it is a journal that is rare in what it is not.
- Contents:
- Intro
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Joliet, Ill. : Printed for the author, 1883.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-045-4
- OCLC:
- 787842738
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