From western deserts to Carolina swamps
Subtitle: a Civil War soldier's journals and letters home
By: edited by John P. Wilson
Contributors: Wilson, John P. (John Philip), 1935-
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826351425; 9780826351449
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 7th; Diaries; Sherman's March through the Carolinas; United States; Sources; Sherman's March to the Sea; Personal narratives; United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 50th (1861-1865); Atlanta Campaign, 1864; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The search for Lewis Roe; title: Retracing the march of the 7th Infantry, June-August 1860; title: Fort Bridger to Fort Craig : Lewis Roe's 1860 diary; title: Escort duty in the Southwest and the Battle of Valverde; title: Reenlistment, joining Sherman's army, and the beginning of the Atlanta Campaign, February-May 22, 1864; title: Rome, Georgia, and the Battle of Allatoona, May 23-November 9, 1864; title: The march to the sea, November 10-December 14, 1864; title: Savannah, Georgia, December 15, 1864-January 26, 1865; title: Up through the Carolinas, January 27-March 27, 1865; title: End of the war and home again, April-July 1865.