. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . is, of Company B. Comrade Charles H. Sanford, Company B, furnished val-uable maps. Comrades Charles E. Bolles, and Charles Car-penter, both of Company K, and J. B. Farnesworth, of theHundred and thirty-fourth Illinois, cheerfully furnished booksof reference and otherwise rendered valuable assistance. Edward A. Munn, besides being helpful with the type-writer, entered with patriotic alacrity into the spirit of theundertaking, and drew the two maps of the
. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . is, of Company B. Comrade Charles H. Sanford, Company B, furnished val-uable maps. Comrades Charles E. Bolles, and Charles Car-penter, both of Company K, and J. B. Farnesworth, of theHundred and thirty-fourth Illinois, cheerfully furnished booksof reference and otherwise rendered valuable assistance. Edward A. Munn, besides being helpful with the type-writer, entered with patriotic alacrity into the spirit of theundertaking, and drew the two maps of the ChickasawBayou battle-field which accompany this work. The confederate Rebellion Archives, published by order ofCongress, have been largely drawn from for much valuableinformation which would have been obtainable from no othersource. And lastly, from very many of the surviving comrades,came an inspiring - God bless you ! Push on the history.* HISTORY OF THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENTILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. CHAPTER I. THE PRAIRIES ABLAZE WITH PATRIOTISM AT THE FIRINGON SUMTER.—WE ORGANIZE AT DIXON, ILLINOIS,SWORN FOR THREE YEARS OF AT DIXON. AY 9, 1S61, found most of the men who wereto make up the Thirteenth Regiment ofIllinois Volunteers Infantry gathered atDixon, Illinois. A place where a man is born, is usuallyplace of lasting interest to him. Dixon is whereour regiment was born and will ever be rememberedby those who were there when it was born. We nowspeak of the Old Thirteenth, and so all men might speakof it if the} were to see the survivors in a body. Some help-ing out their crippled limbs with staffs, and their eyes withglasses, and sheltering their crowns with wigs or displayingthinned locks. But on that memorable day in May the regi-ment was just read}* to be made and there was the timber outof which it was to come. Then not old but new, notseasoned, but somewhat green ; yet that was no fault of thetimber. r 2 HISTORY OF THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT If one were to a
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