The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh: History of the RegimentHarrisburg Publishing Company, state printers, 1908 - 342 pages |
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1st Lieutenant 1st Sergeant 2d Lieutenant advance Andersonville April 12 army arrived artillery Atlanta attack August battery battle of Shiloh Battlefield Commission Bragg camp Captain Captured at Chickamauga cavalry Chattanooga Colonel command Company Confederate Corporal creek Crittenden's Date of muster December 31 died at Andersonville Discharged June Discharged October 11 Discharged on Surgeon's enemy enemy's February field fire flank force Franklin front George George W guns Henry Illinois Indiana infantry Jacob James John Joseph July June 16 June 25 killed Kirk's Liberty Gap line of battle March McClernand McCook miles monument morning moved Musician Nashville night November o'clock Obreiter Ohio ordered picket Pittsburg Landing position Prentiss prisoners Private rear Samuel Sept September 19 Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania Sherman Shiloh Battlefield Commission skirmishers Stone River Surgeon's certificate Tenn Tennessee river Texas Thomas troops tunnel Union Union army Veteran Reserve Corps William Wounded at Liberty
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Page 309 - Prentiss) and several brigade commanders, thousands of small arms, an immense supply of subsistence, forage, and munitions of war, and a large amount of means of transportation — all the substantial fruits of a complete victory — such indeed as rarely have followed the most successful battles ; for never was an army so well provided as that of our enemy. " ' The remnant of his army had been driven in utter disorder to the immediate vicinity of Pittsburg, under the shelter of the heavy guns of...
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Page 309 - Bragg's corps and line of battle, then menaced by the enemy; and the other two brigades were directed to advance by the road to Hamburg to support Bragg's right; and at the same time Maney's regiment of Folk's corps was advanced by the same road to reinforce the regiment of cavalry and battery of four pieces, already thrown forward to watch and guard Grier's, Tanner's, and Borland's Fords of Lick Creek.
Page 308 - By a rapid! and vigorous attack on General Grant it was expected he would be beaten back into his transports and the river, or captured in time to enable us to profit by the victory, and remove to the rear all the stores and munitions that would fall into our hands in such an event, before the arrival of General Buell's army on the scene. It was never contemplated, however, to retain the position thus gained, and abandon Corinth, the strategic point of the campaign.
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