The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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00 - Dedication and Preface
5:07 -
01 - Beginning of the War, 1862
31:32 -
02 - Benton Barracks, St. Louis, 1862
18:32 -
03 - Battle of Shiloh, 1862
57:14 -
04 - Some Incidents of the Battle of Shiloh
37:38 -
05 - Seige of Corinth, 1862
21:39 -
06 - Bethel, Jackson, 1862
28:52 -
07 - Bolivar, 1862
19:16 -
08 - Vicinity of Iuka, Mississippi, 1862
40:32 -
09 - Affair of Salem Cemetery, 1863
47:05 -
10 - Seige of Vicksburg, 1863
40:21 -
11 - Life in a Hospital, 1863
20:25 -
12 - Devall's Bluff, Little Rock, 1863
18:38 -
13 - Granted a Furlough, 1863
41:16 -
14 - Re-enlist for Three Years More
20:08 -
15 - Augusta and Springfield, 1864
30:44 -
16 - Devall's Bluff; Clarendon Expedition, 1864
13:36 -
17 - Grand Reviews and Inspections, 1864
17:16 -
18 - Regiment Goes Home on Furlough
22:12 -
19 - Murfreesboro, 1864
18:43 -
20 - Affair at Overal's Creek, 1864
12:18 -
21 - Battle of Wilkinson's Pike, 1864
22:06 -
22 - Railroad Fight near Murfresboro, 1864
25:27 -
23 - Murfresboro, Winter 1864-1865
15:45 -
24 - Soldier's Pay: Rations
20:30 -
25 - Mustered Out, September 8, 1865
15:08
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (1920) is a public domain work.
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Leander Stillwell was eighteen when he enlisted at Camp Carrollton in January 1862 and went into Company D of the 61st Illinois Infantry, staying with it until the regiment broke ranks for the last time in September 1865. He wrote the account more than fifty years later at his youngest son's urging, working from the pocket diary he bought at Memphis in 1863 and the letters his mother had kept. It moves camp by camp: drill at Benton Barracks, Shiloh, the siege of Corinth, garrison months at Bolivar and Little Rock, Vicksburg, a hospital at Helena, the December fighting outside Murfreesboro. Stillwell claimed no literary skill and kept to what one man in the ranks could see, plain about fear, rations, pay, and the guard duty between battles.
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Book facts
- Author
- Leander Stillwell
- First published
- 1920
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 287
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Civil War
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Sue Anderson