48
On to Atlanta 221
Watching Hood 268
Wintering at Nashville 289
Garrisoning Chattanooga 303
Victory 318
Awaiting discharge 338
Homeward bound 358
Home at last 363

INDEX 369

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Portrait of the Author _Frontispiece_

A Group of Comrades 128

A Group of Officers 250

Entry in diary, December 20, 1864.
Photographic facsimile 290

Portraits of Author taken in 1862, 1863, 1865 358

Group of Sixth Wisconsin Battery, taken in 1897 364

WISCONSIN HISTORY COMMISSION

(Organized under the provisions of Chapter 298, Laws of 1905, as amended
by Chapter 378, Laws of 1907, Chapter 445, Laws of 1909, Chapter 628,
Laws of 1911, and Chapter 772, Section 64, Laws of 1913)

FRANCIS E. McGOVERN

_Governor of Wisconsin_

CHARLES E. ESTABROOK

_Representing Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the
Republic_

MILO M. QUAIFE

_Superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin_

CARL RUSSELL FISH

_Professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin_

MATTHEW S. DUDGEON

_Secretary of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission_

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_Chairman_, Commissioner Estabrook

_Secretary and Editor_, Carl Russell Fish

_Committee on Publications_, Commissioners Dudgeon and Fish

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

Whatever value this publication may have, lies in the fact that it
offers a typical case--a small cross section of the army that freed the
slave and saved the Union.

The Editor of the Commission's publications has asked me to state
briefly something about myself. I am one of the multitude of
"hyphenated" Americans, born across the water but reared under the flag.
I am a Cambro-American, proud of both designations, and with abundant
heart, loyalty, and perhaps too much head pride in both. Introduced to
this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I
celebrated my first anniversary