Front matter
Reading edition
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Wisconsin History Commission: Original Papers, No. 8
AN ARTILLERYMAN'S DIARY
BY JENKIN LLOYD JONES
Private Sixth Wisconsin Battery
WISCONSIN HISTORY COMMISSION
FEBRUARY, 1914
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED
Copyright, 1914 The Wisconsin History Commission (in behalf of the State of Wisconsin)
Opinions or errors of fact on the part of the respective authors of the Commission's publications (whether Reprints or Original Narratives) have not been modified or corrected by the Commission. For all statements, of whatever character, the Author alone is responsible.
DEMOCRAT PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTER
Contents
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Wisconsin History Commissionix
Author's Prefacexi
An Artilleryman's Diary: First Impressions1 Up and Down the Mississippi and Yazoo35 Encircling Vicksburg48 The Siege of Vicksburg59 A Well-Earned Rest78 At Work Again92 En Route to Chattanooga102 With Grant at Chattanooga132 In Winter Quarters148 On to Atlanta221 Watching Hood268 Wintering at Nashville289 Garrisoning Chattanooga303 Victory318 Awaiting Discharge338 Homeward Bound358 Home At Last363
Index369
Illustrations
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Portrait of the AuthorFrontispiece
A Group of Comrades128
A Group of Officers250
Entry in diary, December 20, 1864. Photographic facsimile290
Portraits of Author taken in 1862, 1863, 1865358
Group of Sixth Wisconsin Battery, taken in 1897364