The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War. Leander Stillwell
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Leander Stillwell
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR. LIFE AT CAMP CARROLLTON, JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1862.
CHAPTER II. BENTON BARRACKS. ST. LOUIS, MARCH, 1862.
CHAPTER III. OFF FOR THE SEAT OF WAR. THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. MARCH AND APRIL, 1862.
CHAPTER IV. SOME INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH.
CHAPTER V. THE SIEGE OF CORINTH. IN CAMP AT OWL CREEK. APRIL AND MAY, 1862.
CHAPTER VI. BETHEL. JACKSON. JUNE AND JULY, 1862.
CHAPTER VII. BOLIVAR. JULY, AUGUST, AND SEPTEMBER, 1862.
CHAPTER VIII. BOLIVAR. THE MOVEMENT TO THE VICINITY OF IUKA, MISSISSIPPI. SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER, 1862.
CHAPTER X. THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. JUNE AND JULY, 1863.
CHAPTER XI. HELENA, ARKANSAS. LIFE IN A HOSPITAL. AUGUST, 1863.
CHAPTER XII. DEVALL'S BLUFF. LITTLE ROCK. AUGUST-OCTOBER, 1863.
CHAPTER XIV. LITTLE ROCK. WINTER OF 1863-4. RE-ENLIST FOR THREE YEARS MORE.
CHAPTER XV. LITTLE ROCK. EXPEDITIONS TO AUGUSTA AND SPRINGFIELD. MARCH, APRIL AND MAY, 1864.
CHAPTER XVI. DEVALL'S BLUFF; THE CLARENDON EXPEDITION. JUNE AND JULY, 1864.
CHAPTER XX. THE AFFAIR AT OVERALL'S CREEK. MURFREESBORO. DECEMBER, 1864.
CHAPTER XXI. THE BATTLE OF WILKINSON'S PIKE. DECEMBER 7, 1864.
CHAPTER XXII. THE FIGHT ON THE RAILROAD NEAR MURFREESBORO, DECEMBER 15, 1864.
CHAPTER XXIII. MURFREESBORO. WINTER OF 1864-1865. FRANKLIN. SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1865.
Judge Leander Stillwell
December, 1909.
DEDICATED TO MY YOUNGEST SON,
JEREMIAH E. STILLWELL.
Dear Jerry:
You have earnestly asked me to write something in the nature of an extended account of my career as a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War. It will be a rather strenuous undertaking for a man of my age. I shall be seventy-three years old in about three months, and the truth is, I am now becoming somewhat indolent, and averse to labor of any kind, either mental or physical. But I have concluded to comply with your request, and undertake the work. Whether I shall complete it, or not, I cannot now positively say, but I will do the best I can. And I will also say, for whatever you may think it worth, that YOU are the only person, now living, whose request could induce me to undertake the sketch that you desire.
L. STILLWELL.
Erie, Kansas,
July 3, 1916.
PREFACE.
When I began writing these reminiscences it did not occur to me that anything in the nature of a preface was necessary. It was thought that the dedication to my son Jerry contained sufficient explanation. But I have now finished writing these recollections, and in view of all that they set forth, I believe that a few brief prefatory remarks may now be appropriate. In the first place it will be said that when I began the work it was only to gratify my son, and without any thought or expectation that it would ever be published. I don't know yet that such will be done, but it may happen. The thought occurred to me after I had written some part of it, and it is possible that about at that point some change began to take place in the style, and phraseology, and