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Notes on the Civil War by AP Huffman
Battery M. First Regiment
Illinois Light Artillery
Alexander A. P. Huffman
I enlisted July 24th, 1862 at Chicago, Illinois. My battles
through Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. First battle
at Perryville, Kentucky, October 6th, 7th, and 8th, 1862
Covington, Kentucky 1862
Marysville, Kentucky 1863
Camelsville, Kentucky 1863
New Haven, Kentucky 1863
Frankfort, Kentucky 1863
New Port, Kentucky 1863
Bowling Green, Kentucky 1863
Munfordville, Kentucky 1863
Green River, Kentucky 1863
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Fort Donaldson |
Tennessee |
Feb 3rd, 1863 |
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Spring Hill |
Tennessee |
Mch 4- 5th , 1863 |
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Thomson Hill |
Tennessee |
Mch 4- 5th , 1863 |
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Triune |
Tennessee |
June 9 th , 1863 |
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Franklin |
Tennessee |
June 12 th , 1863 |
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Shelbyville, Pike |
Tennessee |
June 4th, 1863 |
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Shelbyville |
Tennessee |
June 27th, 1863 |
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Murfreesboro Roar |
Tennessee |
Oct. 4 th , 1863 |
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Chattanooga |
Tennessee |
Aug. 21st, 1863 |
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Orchard Knob |
Tennessee |
Nov. 23rd, 1863 |
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Cleveland |
Tennessee |
Nov. 27 th , 1863 |
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London Creek |
Tennessee |
Nov. 15 th , 1863 |
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London |
Tennessee |
Dec. 3rd, 1863 |
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Ringold |
Georgia |
Sept 11th, 1863 |
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Chickamauga |
Georgia |
Sept 19 th to 23rd, 1863 |
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Missionary Ridge |
Tennessee |
Nov 25th, 1863 |
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Blue Springs |
Tennessee |
Oct. 10 th , 1863 |
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Stevenson |
Tennessee |
1863 |
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Bridgeport |
Tennessee |
1863 |
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Chickamauga Station |
Tennessee |
Nov. 26 th , 1863 |
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Buzzard's Roost |
Georgia |
Feb 25 th to 27th, 1864 |
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Dalton |
Georgia |
May 9 th to 14 th , 1864 |
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Rocky Face Ridge |
Georgia |
Feb 23rd, 1864 |
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Buzzard's Roost |
Georgia |
May 25 th to 27th, 1864 |
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Resaca |
Georgia |
May 13 th to 16th, 1864 |
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Kenesaw Mountain |
Georgia |
June 9 th , 1864 |
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Lost Mountain |
Georgia |
June 9th to 30th, 1864 |
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Altoona Hills |
Georgia |
May 29th to June 4th |
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Rome |
Georgia |
May 22nd, 1864 |
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Kingston |
Georgia |
May 18th, 1864 |
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Dallas |
Georgia |
May 25th, 1864 |
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Big Shanty |
Georgia |
1864 |
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Marietta |
Georgia |
July 3rd to 4th, 1864 |
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Peach Tree Creek |
Georgia |
July 19th to 20th |
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Chattahoochie River |
Georgia |
July 3rd, 1864 |
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Atlanta |
Georgia |
July 22nd, 1864 Note: General J. B. McFerson,
Chief Commander of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Corps, Army of the
Tennessee, was killed, July 22nd, 1864, at Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Jonesboro |
Georgia |
Aug 19th , 20 th , and 31, Sept 1 st and 7 th
, 1864 |
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Franklin |
Tennessee |
Nov 30 th 1864 |
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Nashville |
Tennessee |
Dec 15 th and 16 th , 1864 |
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Battery M. First Regiment Illinois Light Artillery, mustered
out at Chicago, Ill, July 24th 1865. A.A. Huffman, a private soldier.
I was a member of the 14 th and 4th Corps, Army of the Cumberland.
The 14th Corps was commanded by Major General George H. Thomas.
The 4th Corps was commanded by Major General O. O. Howard.
Army of the Cumberland
The 15th Corps was commanded by Major General John A Logan
of Illinois
The 16th Crops was commanded my Major General A. J. Smith
The 17th Corps was commanded by Major General J. M. Blair Army
of Tennessee
The 20th Corps was commanded my Major General Joseph Hooker
The 23d Corps was commanded by Major General J. M. Schofield,
Army of the Ohio
These seven Corps consisted of one hundred thousand soldiers,
commanded by Major General William T. Sherman. This army was on
the Atlanta campaign of 1864.
We fought Major General Bragg and General Morgan in Kentucky.
On the Atlanta campaign of 1864 we fought Major General Joseph
E. Johnson, Major General Hood, Major General Longstreet, Major
General Bragg and Major General Fitz Hugh Lee.
Following is a list of the killed, wounded and missing in various
battles in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Geogia.
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Killed |
Wounded |
Missing |
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Perryville, Ky |
Oct 6 th, 7th, and 8th |
916 |
2943 |
489 |
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Chattanooga, Tenn |
Nov, 23- 25th |
757 |
4.529 |
330 |
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Chickamauga, Ga. |
Sept. 19-23, 1863 |
1,644 |
9,262 |
4,945 |
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Franklin, Tenn |
Nov, 30th, 1864 |
189 |
1,033 |
1,104 |
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Kenesaw Mountain, GA |
June 9th to 30th |
1,370 |
6,500 |
800 |
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Peach Tree Creek, GA |
July 20th, 1864 |
300 |
1,410 |
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Resaca, Ga. |
May 13- 16th |
600 |
2,147 |
1,000 |
Shortly after we fought the battle of Green River, Kentucky,
we got orders to fall back to Louisville, Kentucky, and I did
not know what was up, and about the 12th or the 15th, of January
1863, all our troop was loaded on a fleet of boats numbering about
eighteen Ohio steam boats, all told, and with the fleet of boats
we had six gun boats with this fleet that contained four large
guns to each boat. They were 32 pounders, about the 15th or 17th
of January, 1863, this fleet sailed down the Ohio river, and then
up the Cumberland River, until we got within about ten or twelve
miles of Fort Donelson, Tenn., and then the cannons boomed from
both sides of the river, their deadly shots, night and day, until
we fought them at Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 3rd, 1863.There
is where Major General Zollercoffer was killed. It was supposed
that it was a shell from some of the gun boats that killed the
general. Our battery was on a very large boat, called the "Jim
Thompson." a side wheeler. We lost one of our large boats
that was fired into by a rebel battery of six guns. They were
24 pounders. The boat was entirely blown to pieces by those large
shell, and about 500 soldiers on board of the boat were killed
and wounded. I saw some parts of the boat floating down the Cumberland
River past our boat, flour barrels, and large boxes and no end
of hard tack and sow belly, pork and beans. The Cumberland was
very high all the way up to for Donelson and also the Ohio River
was very high. I saw large logs and drifts floating down the Ohio
River as our fleet passed along, and the Cumberland River the
same. Night and day on the high water, without sleep, and the
enemy was close by us most all the time. I thought of home and
the friends in the far north many nights when we stood all night
and day in the line of battle. I would look up to that lonely
star up in the far north and think of the loved ones at home,
and the girl I left behind me. All was well with her, she was
north of the Mason Dixie line, where there was no booming of artillery
or muskets, or the clashing of saber, or the horrors of war. Form
mountain to mountain and from valley to valley, from victory to
victory, was war down in Dixie Land to take my stand and live
and die. Such was war over the hills and mountains down in Dixie
Land.
We have a large boat in our fleet which was named the "Jacob
Straiter." There were about 1,800 soldier on board of the
boat, and there were two brass bands that belonged to the "Boys
in Blue" and they played fine music, night and day, and I
want to say that I took the sweet music in good shape, as it cheered
the boys in blue on to victory and on to many blood battle fields.
Never to hear that sweet music again, who died in defense of their
country and for God and Liberty. The horrors of war, tongue can
never tell, of the dead and dying and wounded soldiers on those
bloody fields that I saw down in Dixie Land, never to be forgotten
while I live on this earth.
I had a chance to bid some of my good old chums good-bye that
fell on the many bloody battle fields that now sleep in the Sunny
South soil. No father, no mother, no sisters nor bothers to bid
them good-bye on many bloody battle fields. They sleep in Sunny
South soil for God and liberty.
May the sons and daughters born of the old veterans of the
late war of 1861 and 1865 stand shoulder to shoulder for this
land and nation, from north to south, from sea to sea, and the
home of the brave, and may their children's children be crowned
by the Lord of Lords to the end of the earth.
All written by: Alexander Allin Phillip Huffman of Iowa City,
Johnson County Iowa
(All Rights Reserved)
Last Update: 07/20/97
Copyright; 1998
by TL Consulting Group -
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Copyright; 1998 by TL Consulting Group - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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