In the Very Thickest of the Fight
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In the Very Thickest of the Fight

The Civil War Service of the 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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eBook - ePub

In the Very Thickest of the Fight

The Civil War Service of the 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

About this book

The 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment took the field under command of a lackadaisical colonel who was frequently absent and feuded with his own officers and superiors.  Distrusted by senior officers, the 78th became a regiment that was always left behind—until its own officers forced their reluctant colonel to resign.  His replacement was a forceful leader who turned the regiment into a crack fighting outfit that performed heroically in the battle of Chickamauga and many of the great battles of the Atlanta campaign.  It later joined Sherman's March to the Sea and fought its way out of the tangled swamps of Bentonville in one of the war's last battles.  Its story is told here mostly in the words of its soldiers through letters, diaries and other sources, many never before accessed by historians.  This book sheds new light on many important incidents and battles in the Civil War's Western Theater.

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter 1: “The Blind Leading the Blind”
  3. Chapter 2: “We Have Bin Seeing Pretty Hard Times”
  4. Chapter 3: “The Maddest Set of Men in the World”
  5. Chapter 4: “Our Colonel Is Under Arrest”
  6. Chapter 5: “The Rebels Are Still Crowding Us Pretty Closely”
  7. Chapter 6: “The Government Has Commenced Giving Us a Few Pickles”
  8. Chapter 7: “The Most Melancholy and Painful Sight I Ever Saw”
  9. Chapter 8: “I Expect We Will Have a Big Mess”
  10. Chapter 9: “In the Very Thickest of the Fight”
  11. Chapter 10: “Our Lights Are All Over Missionary Ridge”
  12. Chapter 11: “My Men Are Almost Literally Naked”
  13. Chapter 12: “Brave Men Were Falling on Every Hand”
  14. Chapter 13: “It Appeared Like Certain Death to Remain”
  15. Chapter 14: “The Northern Sky Is Exceedingly Dark Just Now”
  16. Chapter 15: “This Will Undoubtedly Be a Hard Battle”
  17. Chapter 16: “They Are Going Somewhere Toward Freedom”
  18. Chapter 17: “God Bless Their Brave Souls”
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Notes
  21. Roster
  22. Bibliography
  23. About the Author