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- Army Life: From a Soldier's Journal
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
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. This memoir is not a complete story of the Thirty-Third (known as the “Normal Regiment” because many of its soldiers were from Illinois State Normal University), nor is it a complete roster of regiment members, nor a list of killed and wounded. Army Life is not, even, a purely military account written from an officer’s point of view. It is the story of a twenty-year-old private whose engaging writing belies his age but also allows his youth to shine through. Marshall tells of the battles he fought and the games he played, of his friends, fellow soldiers, and officers, and of the regiment’s activities in Missouri and Arkansas, at Vicksburg, and in Louisiana and on the Texas Gulf Coast. Enhanced with careful editing and thorough annotations, this journal Marshall carried faithfully to every mustering out is a rich and important Civil War memoir.
Table of Contents
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- Series Editors’ Preface
- pp. vii-viii
- Editor’s Introduction
- pp. ix-xviii
- Original Title Page
- pp. 1-2
- Original Contents
- pp. 3-4
- I. LEAVING HOME
- pp. 7-16
- II. AT PILOT KNOB
- pp. 16-34
- III. IN WINTER QUARTERS
- pp. 34-47
- V. IN CAMP AT BATESVILLE
- pp. 68-76
- VI. BATTLE OF CACHE RIVER
- pp. 77-91
- VII. AFTER THE BATTLE
- pp. 91-95
- IX. NORTHWARD BOUND
- pp. 100-110
- XI. WE RETURN TO PILOT KNOB
- pp. 116-121
- XII. A PUBLIC MEETING
- pp. 121-128
- XIII. DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI
- pp. 128-131
- XV. MAGNOLIA HILLS
- pp. 136-140
- XVI. BATTLE OF CHAMPION HILLS
- pp. 140-143
- XVII. BATTLE OF BLACK RIVER
- pp. 143-152
- XVIII. VICKSBURG
- pp. 152-161
- XIX. THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG
- pp. 162-172
- XX. CHARGE UPON VICKSBURG
- pp. 172-181
- XXI. AFTER THE SURRENDER
- pp. 182-185
- XXII. AT BRASHEAR CITY
- pp. 185-191
- XXIII. MARCH UP THE TECHE VALLEY
- pp. 192-194
- XXIV. TO TEXAS
- pp. 194-204
- XXV. FIRST MARCH IN TEXAS
- pp. 205-211
- XXVII. IN WINTER QUARTERS AT INDIANOLA
- pp. 226-230
- XXIX. WITH THE NINETY-NINTH ILLINOIS
- pp. 237-243
- XXXI. WE LEAVE TEXAS AND RETURN TO LOUISIANA
- pp. 256-263
- Appendix A: The Normal Picket
- pp. 271-276
- Appendix C: The Thirty-third in Print
- pp. 279-282
- Appendix D: Problems with Cotton
- pp. 283-289
- Bibliography
- pp. 323-328
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610750455
Related ISBN(s)
9781557289179
MARC Record
OCLC
787842738
Pages
359
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No