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Title: Dan Masters' Civil War Chronicles

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While recuperating in an Atlanta hospital after suffering a hip wound on the last day of the Battle of Chickamauga, Sergeant Hugh Wilson, Jr. of the 19th South Carolina cobbled together his notes and assembled the following campaign diary for the editors of the Abbeville Press and Banner. It is a remarkable chronicle of the movements of the Arm...


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Standing atop Missionary Ridge on the afternoon of November 25, 1863, Lieutenant William M. Boroughs of the 24th Alabama described the approaching Federal attack as "the grandest array of blue ever witnessed by the veterans on the ridge. As soon as the Federal lines appeared about midway through the plain, shells and shots went screaming over our heads and we could ...


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Stunned and nauseated after the explosion of one of his battery’s caissons, a member of the Macbeth Light Artillery of South Carolina stumbled back into the streets of Sharpsburg while the battle of Antietam was at its height.

“As I passed along the streets in the western suburbs of Sharpsburg, I saw the most horrible scen...


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Looking back on the ferocious fighting at the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862, Captain William H. Kinsman of the 4th Iowa called it "a perfect hurricane of death howling through the woods." 

 "The weather was splendid and the smoke, instead of hanging murkily among the trees, rose rapidly and rolled away over the hills in dense, sulfurous masses. The thunder...


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Following his army’s victory at the Battle of Iuka, Mississippi on September 19, 1862, General William S. Rosecrans lavished praise on numerous regiments of the command for their steadfast fighting. One regiment, however, was called out: the 17th Iowa Infantry.

          Burt Axton, reporting for th...


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