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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee, by John K. Shellenberger This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee read after the stated meeting held February 2d, 1907 Author: John K. Shellenberger Release Date: March 3, 2008 [EBook #24740] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BATTLE OF SPRING HILL, TENNESSEE *** Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Military Order OF THE Loyal Legion of the United States COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI The Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee. PREPARED BY Companion Captain John K. Shellenberger READ AFTER THE STATED MEETING HELD FEBRUARY 2d, 1907 PREFACE. More than twenty-five years have passed since I began to collect the materials from which this pamphlet has been evolved. As a substantial basis, to begin with, I was an eye-witness of all the fighting in the vicinity of Spring Hill, that amounted to anything, from the time Forrest attacked the 64th Ohio on the skirmish line until Cleburne's Division recoiled from the fire of the battery posted at the village. Since I began collecting I have neglected no opportunity to increase my stock of information by conversation, reading or correspondence. I have twice revisited the battlefield. I have the Government volume containing the official reports, all of which I have carefully studied. Among my correspondents, on the Union side, have been Generals Stanley, Wilson, Opdycke, Lane and Bradley, besides many others of lesser rank. I am as confident, from their letters, that my paper would have the approval of those named, who are now dead, as I am sure it has the approval of General Wilson, to whom a manuscript copy was submitted for criticism. Among other Confederates, I wrote to General S.D. Lee, who referred me to Judge J.P. Young, of Memphis Tennessee, with the statement that he had exhausted the subject on the Confederate side. He was present at Spring Hill as a boy soldier
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