We left the Arsenal in a few days and for six months were engaged in “business” in southeast Missouri. On October 21 we met the Confederates in force, under Jeff. Thompson, at Fredericktown and succeeded in thoroughly convincing them that they were whipped.
February 6, 1862, we entered Fort Henry and ten days later marched in triumph into Fort Donelson. April 6 and 7 we had position in the Union lines at Shiloh and after that took a hand in the siege of Corinth. September 1 were engaged in the sharp little battle of Britton’s Lane. In the winter of 1862-3 were in the campaign in the mud in northern Mississippi. Were at Oxford when General VanDorn took Holly Springs and burned our supplies. In the spring and summer of 1863 we participated in all the battles of the Vicksburg campaign and in the siege of that stronghold.
Were out on the Meridian expedition for twenty-nine days in the month of February, 1864, without tents or other protection from the elements except what every man carried on his back.
In the spring and summer of 1864 were in the Georgia campaign and siege of Atlanta. In the fall went from Atlanta to the sea.
In 1865 was in the campaign in the Carolinas and marched through Virginia to Washington after the Confederate armies had surrendered.
On the 16th of July, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky, the Twentieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was mustered out of the United States service and disbanded, and the boys went home.
INDEX.
| PAGE | ||
| Adams, Benjamin | [44] | |
| Adams, George | [40] | |
| Anderson | [6] | |
| Ashton | [47] | |
| Atkins | [48] | |
| Bacon | [6] | |
| Barnard | [39] | |
| Barrows, David | [43] | |
| Barrows, James | [6] | |
| Baxter | [46] | |
| Bennett | [48] | |
| Bishop | [34] | |
| Bissell | [7] | |
| Boyer | [4] | |
| Bristol | [47] | |
| Broad | [33] | |
| Brown | [7] | |
| Carey | [8] | |
| Charles | [49] | |
| Clayton | [9] | |
| Clifford | [9] | |
| Connelly | [56] | |
| Conner, Richard | [47] | |
| Conner, Anderson | [10] | |
| Conner, Lambert | [38] | |
| Constantine | [40] | |
| Cook | [50] | |
| Crellen | [42] | |
| Crowell | [55] | |
| Crowner | [48] | |
| Coyle | [10] | |
| Dann | [11] | |
| Dayton | [51] | |
| Dyer | [3] | |
| Favreau | [12] | |
| Garner | [55] | |
| Gay | [36] | |
| Griswold | [50] | |
| Gray | [12] | |
| Hagerdorn | [56] | |
| Hagerman | [13] | |
| Hall | [39] | |
| Hanson | [13] | |
| Havenhill, Marshall | [13] | |
| Havenhill, Henry | [54] | |
| Heacox | [54] | |
| Hopgood, Thomas | [33] | |
| Hopgood, George | [13] | |
| Howes | [14] | |
| Hutton | [14] | |
| Jennings, Stephen | [47] | |
| Jennings, James | [16] | |
| Kilmer | [16] | |
| Landon | [50] | |
| Lawton | [51] | |
| Leach, Greenbury | [51] | |
| Leach, John | [17] | |
| Lehman | [47] | |
| Littlewood | [17] | |
| Lord | [56] | |
| Mallory | [48] | |
| McKean | [47] | |
| Merkli | [52] | |
| Minard | [56] | |
| Mintz | [40] | |
| Mitchell | [44] | |
| Morton, Marcus | [43] | |
| Morton, Gilbert | [52] | |
| Mullenix | [18] | |
| Olin | [3] | |
| Paxson | [48] | |
| Pepoon | [41] | |
| Pierson | [18] | |
| Pratt | [57] | |
| Prentice | [20] | |
| Preston, William | [21] | |
| Preston, Luman | [39] | |
| Pruyn | [21] | |
| Read | [46] | |
| Remillard | [21] | |
| Rockwood | [22] | |
| Scofield | [54] | |
| Shoger | [43] | |
| Sleezer | [50] | |
| Smith | [49] | |
| Spellman | [5] | |
| Spencer | [22] | |
| Springer, Richard | [22] | |
| Springer, James | [38] | |
| Springer, Joseph | [49] | |
| Taylor, Robert | [45] | |
| Taylor, John | [23] | |
| Todd | [24] | |
| Trenter | [26] | |
| Vreeland | [26] | |
| Wallace | [26] | |
| Wann | [42] | |
| Waters | [43] | |
| Watson | [53] | |
| West | [27] | |
| White | [28] | |
| Wilcox | [49] | |
| Wilsey | [28] | |
| Wilson, Andrew | [41] | |
| Wilson, DeWitt | [29] | |
| Wilson, George | [30] | |
| Woodruff | [46] | |
| Wright | [31] | |
| Preface | [2] | |
| Remarks | [57] | |
| A Bit of History | [59] |