. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . i Misery was the land of long-haired people and but-ternut clothes, also a land of long miles. The distances aslearned from the natives were of such an uncertain quantity,that after a time when a man said it was so many miles to aplace, the boys would ask, United States miles or Missourimiles ? This was the land where they made peach pies with-out lard or sugar, pies so tough that it needed an ax to cutthem. A land of log cabins and few accomplishments,
. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . i Misery was the land of long-haired people and but-ternut clothes, also a land of long miles. The distances aslearned from the natives were of such an uncertain quantity,that after a time when a man said it was so many miles to aplace, the boys would ask, United States miles or Missourimiles ? This was the land where they made peach pies with-out lard or sugar, pies so tough that it needed an ax to cutthem. A land of log cabins and few accomplishments, andyet withal the people knew enough to take sides on this greatquestion of union and disunion, of human slavery and humanliberty, and to bitterly fight, neighbor against neighbor, andeven brother against brother. In the siege of Vicksburg therewere two brigades of Missourians facing each other, and inthe swinging of Grants army to the rear of Vicksburg, at theskirmish at Fourteen-mile Creek, as the men of the SeventeenthMissouri Regiment (Union) advanced, one of the men cameupon his own brother, wounded and belonging to the CHAPTER III. THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPINORTHWEST, AND OF ROLLA IN PARTICULAR.—CALLEDTO THAT POST.—WYMAN. 9 HE geographical and strategic position of Mis-souri, at the breaking out of the War of theRebellion, made it a point of the greatest im-portance, both to the Union and slave was on the extreme left of the Confederatelines, and its position in that line was as if it hadmade a right half-wheel, intending to overlap, andcompletely outflank the Federal line of the Union was no geographical divisions of the ConfederateStates, including the Gulf and Atlantic seaports, that pos-sessed such dangerous possibilities against the Union ^ as did thistrans-Mississippi left flank of the Confederacy. It includedthe Indian Territory, which had been overawed, bribed, andcajoled from its loyalty to the rebels
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