. The Nineteenth Illinois; a memoir of a regiment of volunteer infantry famous in the Civil War of fifty years ago for its drill, bravery, and distinguished services . hat of the Ohio, Major General John commanding. The larger force was assigned toThomas; it consisted of the Fourth, Fourteenth, and Twen-tieth Army Corps, and it was destined to bear the greatestburden of the offensive work to come. In the Army of theTennessee was the Fifteenth (John A. Logans famousCorps), also the Sixteenth Corps, while Frank Blairs Seven-teenth Corps joined this army the tenth of May. TheArmy of t
. The Nineteenth Illinois; a memoir of a regiment of volunteer infantry famous in the Civil War of fifty years ago for its drill, bravery, and distinguished services . hat of the Ohio, Major General John commanding. The larger force was assigned toThomas; it consisted of the Fourth, Fourteenth, and Twen-tieth Army Corps, and it was destined to bear the greatestburden of the offensive work to come. In the Army of theTennessee was the Fifteenth (John A. Logans famousCorps), also the Sixteenth Corps, while Frank Blairs Seven-teenth Corps joined this army the tenth of May. TheArmy of the Ohio consisted of the Twenty-third Corps,which had been formed by consolidating the two Corps fromthe Army of the Potomac sent us after we had been coopedu]) in Chattanooga. Shermans total force was just under ahundred thousand men, with 250 pieces of artillery. John-ston had about 54,000 men and 245 pieces of artillery tobegin with, but by the tenth of May General Leonidas PolksCorps of 20,000 men was sent to his command, so that therelative proi:)ortion between the advancing strength and thatof the defense was as ten to seven during the entire campaign o o. The Nineteenth Illinois 313 which followed. The Union Army was indeed numerousand well equipped, but it had in truth enormous difficultiesto face. The region in which it operated was wooded andmountainous, in great part thinly settled, quite unsurveyedand unmapped. Our 98,800 men and the thirty-five orforty thousand animals must be supplied mostly from asfar North as the Ohio River, by a single line of railroad,exposed to the enemy from Louisville to Chattanooga—indeed it was often attacked, and might be broken any this thread of connection one hundred and thirty cars,carrying ten tons each, must proceed every day in order thatour force might be fed and clothed. When the Nineteenth started on this campaign in May,1864, it was still in the Second Brigade, First Division,Fourteenth Corps, with Brigadier Genera
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