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Wilder, J. H., (Jeremy H.) author.

Thirty Seventh Illinois : Civil War stories from the back of the battle / J.H. Wilder.

Teaneck, New Jersey : English Garden Press, [2017]

©2017

v, 546 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"Stories from the back of the battle. The origins, the camps, the marches, the hospitals, death, disease, discipline, the home front, the politics. This is the story of the Thirty Seventh Illinois Infantry Regiment, one of the longest serving volunteer units (four years, nine months) in the American Civil War."-- Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-530) and indexes.

United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 37th (1861-1866) -- History.

United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 37th (1861-1866) -- Registers.

Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.

The first month -- The patriarchs -- The Zoo-zoo's -- Thirty days at Springfield -- The water march to St. Louis -- Boonville -- Death by mud -- Pea Ridge -- Cassville -- The election -- Punishment -- The mutiny -- The Barnes exit -- The reluctant brigadier -- Mindless marching -- Prairie Grove -- The F word -- The court of bad language -- Missouri in the rearview -- Vicksburg -- Microbe war -- Texas -- Reenlistment -- The reenlisted 37th -- The discharged 37th -- DeVall's Bluff -- Fort Blakeley -- The last days of Black and Frisbie -- The final pay call -- The Haymarket bombing -- Appendix 1. Notes from the war years -- Appendix 2. Descriptive roll.

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