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- ISBN
- 9780809320462
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10
0809320460
ISBN-13
9780809320462
eBay Product ID (ePID)
819608
Product Key Features
Book Title
Army Life of an Illinois Soldier : Including a Day-By-Day Record of Sherman's March to the Sea
Number of Pages
398 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military / United States, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Historical, Military
Publication Year
1996
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Reprint
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Book Series
Shawnee Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
44.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-048898
Dewey Edition
20
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"One Michigan farm boy, who wrote [during the Civil War], ‘I don't no wat is a going on,' and proved his point repeatedly, eventually attracted a modern scholar willing to explain ‘wat' to posterity. Books of routine and redundant soldier letters form a thicket that conceals those of value. One truly remarkable and incisive soldier's account, privately published in a small edition in 1906, has become a neglected classic."-- John Y. Simon, from the Foreword, "One Michigan farm boy, who wrote [during the Civil War], 'I don't no wat is a going on,' and proved his point repeatedly, eventually attracted a modern scholar willing to explain 'wat' to posterity. Books of routine and redundant soldier letters form a thicket that conceals those of value. One truly remarkable and incisive soldier's account, privately published in a small edition in 1906, has become a neglected classic."-John Y. Simon,from the Foreword, "One Michigan farm boy, who wrote [during the Civil War], #145;I don't no wat is a going on,' and proved his point repeatedly, eventually attracted a modern scholar willing to explain #145;wat' to posterity. Books of routine and redundant soldier letters form a thicket that conceals those of value. One truly remarkable and incisive soldier's account, privately published in a small edition in 1906, has become a neglected classic."-- John Y. Simon, from the Foreword, "One Michigan farm boy, who wrote [during the Civil War], ‘I don't no wat is a going on,' and proved his point repeatedly, eventually attracted a modern scholar willing to explain ‘wat' to posterity. Books of routine and redundant soldier letters form a thicket that conceals those of value. One truly remarkable and incisive soldier's account, privately published in a small edition in 1906, has become a neglected classic."— John Y. Simon, from the Foreword, "One Michigan farm boy, who wrote [during the Civil War], 'I don't no wat is a going on,' and proved his point repeatedly, eventually attracted a modern scholar willing to explain 'wat' to posterity. Books of routine and redundant soldier letters form a thicket that conceals those of value. One truly remarkable and incisive soldier's account, privately published in a small edition in 1906, has become a neglected classic."-- John Y. Simon, from the Foreword, "One Michigan farm boy, who wrote [during the Civil War], ' I don' t no wat is a going on,' and proved his point repeatedly, eventually attracted a modern scholar willing to explain ' wat' to posterity. Books of routine and redundant soldier letters form a thicket that conceals those of value. One truly remarkable and incisive soldier' s account, privately published in a small edition in 1906, has become a neglected classic."-- John Y. Simon, from the Foreword
Compiled by
Kellogg, Mary E.
Dewey Decimal
973.7/81
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
A high-spirited idealist who craved excitement when he enlisted in the Eighth Illinois Volunteers for three months and reenlisted for three years, Charles W. Wills of Canton, Illinois, wrote frequently to his sister Mary Emily Wills and kept a diary of General William T. Sherman s campaigns during the last year of the war. In the beginning of his service, Wills could boast that his company refused to enlist "roughs." He reported that he and his comrades "drink no liquors and keep ourselves as cleanly as possible.... Almost all are reading or writing, and I defy anyone to find "75 "men without any restraint, paying more attention to the Sabbath. . . . Health generally excellent in our company, because we are all careful."A student and store clerk before enlisting, Wills found that army life "beats clerking." He enlisted as a private at the age of twenty-one and by twenty-four was a major. He had thought he might receive an infantry commission eventually, but when the opportunity arose for promotion to first lieutenant in the Seventh Illinois Cavalry, "cupidity and ambition" caused him to abandon the Eighth, enabling him to hold rank "without so much walking." For a while, though, he seriously rued his lack of action. "Haven t I a brilliant record," he wrote. "Thirty-three months in service and not a battle." As Simon points out, however, "in the year ahead, Wills would have more than his fill of battles." Battle starved once, his enthusiasm for carnage waned as he marched with Sherman to the sea. Yet Major Wills was impressed by his troops "endurance, spirit and recklessness."Wills matured in the army. He joined solely to preserve the Union, and his early comments on slaves "lacked sympathy, even decency," according to Simon. Later he came to the point where he would arm blacksin part, with an eye toward gaining rank by leading the new regiments. Yet he was not blind to the anomalies of a slave society.Wills died in 1883. To preserve his memory, his sister (now Mary Kellogg) printed his diary in 1904. Two years later, Kellogg combined the diary with the letters Wills had written to her earlier in the war. Simon renders this assessment: "Wills had a sparkling, witty style that contrasted sharply with that of both his contemporaries in the field and the seven regimental veterans who compiled their diaries. In assembling this book, Mary E. Kellogg wisely allowed her brother to speak for himself; rarely intruding a comment of her own, excising from his letters home inevitable expressions of concern for his sister and her welfare but leaving intact the sparkling flow of camp gossip and military speculation."", A high-spirited idealist who craved excitement when he enlisted in the Eighth Illinois Volunteers for three months and reenlisted for three years, Charles W. Wills of Canton, Illinois, wrote frequently to his sister Mary Emily Wills and kept a diary of General William T. Sherman's campaigns during the last year of the war. In the beginning of his service, Wills could boast that his company refused to enlist "roughs." He reported that he and his comrades "drink no liquors and keep ourselves as cleanly as possible.... Almost all are reading or writing, and I defy anyone to find 75 men without any restraint, paying more attention to the Sabbath. . . . Health generally excellent in our company, because we are all careful." A student and store clerk before enlisting, Wills found that army life "beats clerking." He enlisted as a private at the age of twenty-one and by twenty-four was a major. He had thought he might receive an infantry commission eventually, but when the opportunity arose for promotion to first lieutenant in the Seventh Illinois Cavalry, "cupidity and ambition" caused him to abandon the Eighth, enabling him to hold rank "without so much walking." For a while, though, he seriously rued his lack of action. "Haven't I a brilliant record," he wrote. "Thirty-three months in service and not a battle." As Simon points out, however, "in the year ahead, Wills would have more than his fill of battles." Battle starved once, his enthusiasm for carnage waned as he marched with Sherman to the sea. Yet Major Wills was impressed by his troops' "endurance, spirit and recklessness." Wills matured in the army. He joined solely to preserve the Union, and his early comments on slaves "lacked sympathy, even decency," according to Simon. Later he came to the point where he would arm blacks--in part, with an eye toward gaining rank by leading the new regiments. Yet he was not blind to the anomalies of a slave society. Wills died in 1883. To preserve his memory, his sister (now Mary Kellogg) printed his diary in 1904. Two years later, Kellogg combined the diary with the letters Wills had written to her earlier in the war. Simon renders this assessment: "Wills had a sparkling, witty style that contrasted sharply with that of both his contemporaries in the field and the seven regimental veterans who compiled their diaries. In assembling this book, Mary E. Kellogg wisely allowed her brother to speak for himself; rarely intruding a comment of her own, excising from his letters home inevitable expressions of concern for his sister and her welfare but leaving intact the sparkling flow of camp gossip and military speculation.", A high-spirited idealist who craved excitement when he enlisted in the Eighth Illinois Volunteers, Charles W. Wills of Illinois wrote frequently to his sister and kept a diary of General William T. Sherman's campaigns during the last years of the Civil War. This text combines his letters and diary.
LC Classification Number
E601.W73 1996
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