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Illinois in the Civil War
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Title Illinois in the Civil War Short Title Illinois in the Civil War Author Hicken, Victor Publisher Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1991 Call Number E505.H5 1991 Repository Library of Congress Source ID S224 Text p. 308
Young Private Stewart Hoskinson of Rushville, in G Company of the 73rd Illinois, hit the triumphant Confederates head on. " I well remember what a badly demor-
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alized mob [Lane's and Conrad's men] we met just in the yard at the Carter House," he wrote; "it was a fight, nearly, to get to the front, they wildly struggling to the rear, and we crowding to the front." Hoskinson and his comrades soon made their way through the retreating Federals. The little Rushville soldier spotted a Confederate private about to club a fallen Union officer and shot him right in the "breadbasket."
Hoskinson's hard and cynical reference to the death of an enemy soldier really indicates the nature of the fight at Franklin.It was later written by Captain Sexton of the 72nd Illinois, and with a good deal of truth, that the battle near the Carter House was a "private soldier's battle, the sum of its strategy be to hold and occupy a few square feet upon which the soldiers stood to the last."
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Notes - Complete Library of Congress Citation:
LC Control No.: 90041288
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal Name: Hicken, Victor, 1921- » More like this
Main Title: Illinois in the Civil War / Victor Hicken ; foreword by E.B. Long.
Edition Information: 2nd ed.
Published/Created: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991.
Description: xxii, 417 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0252061659 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0252017722 (cl. : acid-free paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-409) and index.
Subjects: Illinois--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. » More like this
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns. » More like this
LC Classification: E505 .H5 1991
Dewey Class No.: 973.7/473 20
Geographic Area Code: n-us--- n-us-il
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