John W. Foster
CONTENTS
| I. | Introduction | [1] |
| II. | The Missouri Campaign | [5] |
| III. | The Battle of Fort Donelson | [37] |
| IV. | The Battle of Shiloh | [52] |
| V. | On to Corinth and Memphis | [81] |
| VI. | Guerrilla Warfare in Kentucky | [95] |
| VII. | The East Tennessee Campaign | [119] |
| VIII. | With the Hundred Days Men | [161] |
| Appendix | [179] |
WAR STORIES FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN
I
INTRODUCTION
After the inauguration of President Lincoln, March 4, 1861, much discussion followed in Washington and in the North, and plans were proposed respecting peaceable adjustment of the troubles occasioned by the secession of the Southern States from the Union. But the first hostile gun fired at Fort Sumter and the National flag, on April 12, put an end to all peace proposals, and solidified the North in favor of restoring and preserving the Union by force of arms. As one of our statesmen of that day expressed it, yesterday there had been difference of opinion, to-day there was unity.
When two days afterwards the President's call for seventy-five thousand volunteers for three months' service was issued, my first impulse was to respond to that call; but before any movement for enlistments could be made in our locality the quota of Indiana was filled to overflowing. I was content for several reasons to await the progress of events.