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Title: History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Hight, John J. 1834-1886 Stormont, Gil R., comp
Subjects: United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 58th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Princeton, (Ind.) : Press of the Clarion
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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men, with four days rations, and wentas guards for a forage train. Captain George Whitman has resigned, and left for homeabout twelve m. to-day. I am truly sorry to see the Captain go. We have lost agood soldier. I hear that his wife lies at deaths door. Itis this that leads him homeward. We have had but little cannonading. Most of it was doneby the rebels. It was Fort Lookout firing.at Moccasin. In one of my strolls about Chattanooga, I turned asideand stood on Cameron Hill, the place where our Regimentbivouacked the night after our first entry into Chattanooga,September 9th. How changed the scene now, as comparedto that of two months ago ! Then this place was a grove offorest trees. Now every tree has been cut down. Thensummer covered all with green. Now nature seemed dead,and the trees leafless. Then a few forts without guns con-stituted the stronghold ; now bristling ramparts in every val-ley, and grim forts on everyhill, form a grand fortress. A FIFTY-EIGHTH INDIANA BEGIMEXT. 209
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CAPTAIN WILLIAM E. CHAPPEL Was mustered in as First Lieutenant of Company I, December 16, 1S61,and continued as such until April 6, 1S63, when he was promoted to theCaptaincy of the Company. He commanded the Company the remainderof the time and was mustered out with the Regiment. After leaving thearmy he returned to his occupation of farming, in which he has been quitesuccessful. He is now living on his farm near Algiers, Pike county, Indiana.Captain Chappel is one of the most active members of the 58th IndianaRegimental Association, and is in hearty sympathy with every movementthat tends to perpetuate the deeds of that Regiment. He was the first totender material aid for the publication of this work. 210 CHAPLAIN HIGrHTS HISTORY OF THE few straggling inhabitants, and a few hundreds of Yankeetroops, were all the living beings then in view. Now thereare teeming thousands of soldiery. There are some housesless, but a million tents more. Away yonder, where onecould then see naught but th

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