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Title: Iowa and the rebellion. A history of the troops furnished by the state of Iowa to the volunteer armies of the Union, which conquered the great Southern Rebellion of 1861-5
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Lurton Dunham
Subjects: Iowa -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Iowa Iowa -- Militia
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Co. Dubuque, B.M. Harger (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ar. It went to a new field of adventure and glory. After a long journey byrail and river, and a long march through Tennessee and Alabama, ilieveterans of the (Seventh found themselves grasping the generous hand- ofthe soldiers of the Armies of the Cumberland and the Ohio in the moun-tains of Georgia, with whom the Army of the Tennessee was henceforthfully to cooperate in the bravest campaign of history. The Eowa V>\joined the main body of Shermans army at Aokworth, on the 8th of June,aflei the grand army had marched, and flanked, and fought its waythither, from Ringgold, near the northern boundary of the State. \ few days afterwards our iv ■:m nt had its first Bghting under the ling heights of Senesaw Mountain, where the eneniywas posted sois to blockade the march fbr nearly a month, the whole of wlperiod was occupied with skirmishes, in which all the troops were less ormore ( Nil army was posted v\ itliin range of the enemy a ELEVENTH INFANTRY. 223 OPERATIONS ON N1CKAJACK CREEK.
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mm HH 224 IOWA AND THE REBELLION. sharp-shooters, and many on our main lines fell victims to their accuratefiring, whilst the pickets were in constant danger. Hence, though theEleventh was not called upon to take part in the assault of the i!7th. it lostmore than a score of men in killed and wounded in front of Kenesaw. Johnston abandoned Kenesaw on the night of July 2d, and withdrew toMarietta, there taking position again behind heavy fortifications, too strongto have been carried by assault. The movement of the Twenty-third Corpion the left, however, and of McPhersOns army to the ri.-dit. ^ave Shermanpossession of the works without bloodshed. Johnston retired to the coverof the Chattahoochee River, and soon afterwards threw the main body ofhis army across that stream, but leaving Hardees strong corps on the northside to dispute our advance. Hardee occupied a strong intrenched positionin a bend of the river called the Peninsula, his right flank covered by theriver itself, his left an

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