. . io 16 His Youthful Creed 25 The Lincoln and Douglass Presidential Campaign 27Rules in Regard to Speak-ing 35 Why He Became a Law-yer. .. ; 37 The Civil War 39New Madrid and Island Ten 43 The Siege of 54 Battle of luka 62 Battle of Corinth 69 Incidents of the Battle. 7SRecovering from His Wound ^ 88 A Raid Into Alabama. . 91A Trip to Vicksburg during the Siege 94 A Terrible Railroad Ride 105 PageRecruiting for the Veteran Service 107 Night Attack on Decatur 109The Start for 113 Battle of Resaca 116
. . io 16 His Youthful Creed 25 The Lincoln and Douglass Presidential Campaign 27Rules in Regard to Speak-ing 35 Why He Became a Law-yer. .. ; 37 The Civil War 39New Madrid and Island Ten 43 The Siege of 54 Battle of luka 62 Battle of Corinth 69 Incidents of the Battle. 7SRecovering from His Wound ^ 88 A Raid Into Alabama. . 91A Trip to Vicksburg during the Siege 94 A Terrible Railroad Ride 105 PageRecruiting for the Veteran Service 107 Night Attack on Decatur 109The Start for 113 Battle of Resaca 116 Night Battle at Dalton. 124At Kenesaw Mountain. 129Battle of Kenesaw Moun-tain 137 The Charge of Company H at Decatur 140 Operations before Atlanta 143The Chase after Hood. 1 54The March to the 161Capture of Savannah. ... 173The March through the Carolinas 175 Battle of Rivers Bridge. 177The Burning of Columbia 182Johnsons Surrender. . 206The March to Washing-ton 210 The Grand Review 216 Mustered Out 222 Concluding Sketch 233 Appendix 242. Oscar L. JacksonFrom a daguerreotype taken in 1858 Aged 18 THE COLONELS DIARY Chapter I Oscar Lawrence Jackson was born on September 2, parents were then living in the little village of New Port,situated in what is now Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Hisfather kept the village store and post office. About the time Oscar was seven years old, his father had beenelected a Justice of the Peace. New Port is on the right bankof the Beaver River, where there was at that time a dam of thePittsburgh and Erie Canal, with a lock on the opposite side atthe hamlet of Hardscrabble. High water on the Beaver haddamaged the lock, and the canal boats arriving from eitherdirection had to tie up and remain until the lock could be repaired,which took nearly a month. Quite a company of boatmen hadthus become stranded at Hardscrabble. They formed a kind ofcamp on shore and slept on the boats. They were a rather lawless set and committed some depreda
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