. Camp-fire and cotton-field: southern adventure in time of war. Life with the Union armies, and residence on a Louisiana plantation . ess of the cause forwhich he was fighting, he stood ready to die. Thegloom that spread throughout the North when the news 80 OFFICERS FROM THE WILSON CREEK ARMY. of his loss was received, showed a just appreciation ofhis character. ILow sleep the brave who sink to restBy all their countrys wishes blest! At that battle there was the usual complement ofofficers for five thousand men. Two years later therewere seven major-generals and thirteen brigadier-gen-erals
. Camp-fire and cotton-field: southern adventure in time of war. Life with the Union armies, and residence on a Louisiana plantation . ess of the cause forwhich he was fighting, he stood ready to die. Thegloom that spread throughout the North when the news 80 OFFICERS FROM THE WILSON CREEK ARMY. of his loss was received, showed a just appreciation ofhis character. ILow sleep the brave who sink to restBy all their countrys wishes blest! At that battle there was the usual complement ofofficers for five thousand men. Two years later therewere seven major-generals and thirteen brigadier-gen-erals who had risen from the Wilson Creek were colonels, lieutenant-colonels, and majors, bythe score, who fought in the line or in the ranks on thatmemorable 10th of August. In 1863, thirty-two com-missioned officers were in the service from one companyof the First Iowa Infantry. Out of one company of theFirst Missouri Infantry, twenty-eight men received com-missions. To the majority of the officers from that armypromotion was rapid, though a few cases occurred inwhich the services they rendered were tardily §fe^ : I f§§j^M ■y/l^y
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