Army Life: From a Soldier's Journal

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Notes Editor’s Introduction 1. For a more complete history and roster of the Thirty-third Illinois see Isaac H. Elliott and Virgil G. Way, History of the Thirty-Third Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War (Gibson City, IL, 1902; repr., Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 1998). 2. Biographical information on Albert O. Marshall was obtained from the Joliet Historical Society, Illinois. 3. The books used are Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 4 vols. (New York: The Century Co., 1887); Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden, Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (New York: McDonnell Bros., 1894); Marcus J. Wright, Official and Illustrated War Record (Washington, DC: n.p., 1899); Louis S. Moat, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War (New York: Mrs. Frank Leslie, n.d.); and The Official Atlas of the Civil War (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958). 4. Gottfried Duden, Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America. (Columbia, MO: State Historical Society and University of Missouri Press, 1980). 5. In the census listing of the one hundred largest cities from the 1860 census, New Orleans ranked sixth with 168,675 people. Cincinnati ranked seventh (161,044), St. Louis ranked eighth (160,773), and Chicago ranked ninth (112,172). Louisville, Kentucky, ranked twelfth (68,033), and no other transAppalachian city had reached 50,000 in population. See http://www.census.gov/population/documentation/twps0027/tab09.txt (accessed July 2006). 6. The St. Louis ethnic population in 1860 was mainly German and Irish. In the 1860 U.S. Census, more than half the population was listed as “foreign born.” The total population of St. Louis, city and county, was 190,524. Of this number there were only 1, 156 slaveholders and 3,346 slaves. Walter Ryle, Missouri: Union or Secession (Nashville, TN: George Peabody College for Teachers, 1931). 7. See http://www.civilwarhome.com/population1860.htm (accessed July 2006). 8. The Republican Party was formed in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin. It ran its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856. 9. Ryle, Missouri: Union or Secession, 153, 167. 10. Claiborne Fox Jackson, quoted in Sceva Bright Laughlin, Missouri Politics during the Civil War (Salem, OR: n.p., n.d.), 28–29. 11. Laughlin, Missouri Politics, 28. 291 12. Ibid., 25. 13. Ibid., 34, 36. 14. Ibid., 39; Journal and Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention Held at Jefferson City and St. Louis, March, 1861 (St. Louis, MO: George Knapp & Co., 1861), 36. 15. William C. Winter, The Civil War in St. Louis (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994), 38–40 16. Ibid., 38–48. 17. Christopher Phillips, Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990). Nathaniel Lyon was born in Connecticut in 1818, entered West Point in 1837, and graduated in 1841, eleventh in the class of fifty-two. He served in the Seminole War and the Mexican War and rose to the rank of captain. He had red hair and a legendary short temper. 18. The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901), series 3, 1:68–69. Hereafter cited as War of the Rebellion: Official Records. 19. War of the Rebellion: Official Records, series 3, 1:82–83. 20. War of the Rebellion: Official Records, series 1, 1:649. 21. The arsenal was located on the Mississippi River and steamboats could be loaded directly from a wharf at the arsenal. The arms were first taken upriver to Alton and then shipped to Springfield, Illinois. 22. Laughlin, Missouri Politics, 48. 23. James Peckham, Nathaniel Lyon and Missouri in 1861 (New York: American News Company, 1866), 114. 24. Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987), 94. Daniel M. Frost (1823–1900), Brigadier General of the Ninth Missouri Militia District, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1844 and won a brevet for gallantry in the Mexican War. He resigned from the army in 1853, engaged in business in St. Louis, and was active in the Missouri Militia organization. After his capture at Camp Jackson and exchange, he served as brigadier general in the Confederate army until resigning in 1863. After the war, he farmed in St. Louis County. 25. Winter, Civil War in St. Louis, 52. 26. Uriel Wright, quoted in J. Thomas Scharf, History...