. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . man, Mrs. Captain Noble. But the youngest lady who came there to see us, was MissMary Hinman, who was just seventeen months and five days oldthe day she arrived in our camp. Her advent caused a com-motion ; and while she held the reins of social power, sheheld them very gently ; but, unconsciously, she reigned rightroyally among the thousand men who wore the uniform ofthe Union while she remained with us ; and their loyalty andadmiration followed her ho
. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . man, Mrs. Captain Noble. But the youngest lady who came there to see us, was MissMary Hinman, who was just seventeen months and five days oldthe day she arrived in our camp. Her advent caused a com-motion ; and while she held the reins of social power, sheheld them very gently ; but, unconsciously, she reigned rightroyally among the thousand men who wore the uniform ofthe Union while she remained with us ; and their loyalty andadmiration followed her home from the tented field, tac-itly acknowledging her as the daughter of the regiment;and her love for the regiment seemed to have been born inour camp, and has grown and strengthened with maturingyears. No door of any home will open wider and more cordiallyswing back to any worthy survivor of the Thirteenth Regi-ment, than that of the comfortable home of Mrs. Mary HinmanVan Lanningham, of Blue Island, Illinois. CHAPTER X. OUR INTENSE ANXIETY TO BE RELIEVED FROM HOLDINGTHE POST AT ROLLA, AND TO GO FORWARD WITHOTHER TROOPS TO THE FRONT. .. HEN asked to assist in writing our regi-mental history, your historian was utterlyat a loss to know how to begin, as all regi-mental records, and papers of all kinds, it wasunderstood had been captured by the rebels andburned, at Madison Station, Alabama,. when theregiment was about to be mustered out of the service. Andtheonly scrap of anything resembling a regimental paper sofar furnished for the history, is the original, and one other ofwhich the following is a copy, of the first which was sent toComrade Colonel Henry T. Noble at Dixon, Illinois, whichletter is given entire as of special interest to the boys. Sterling, Illinois, February 25th, 1S91. Comrade Noble : Find inclosed paper. You probably will recog-nize it. They (there were other papers) were found in an old bureauhere that had been left for repairs ; and most of the companies wer
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