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The Badax Tigers
From Shiloh to the Surrender with the 18th Wisconsin Volunteers
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2007
Summary
When the Badax County Tigers left the small town of Viroqua, Wisconsin, in the autumn of 1861, they had little notion of what military service would demand of them.
The Badax Tigers were as common a company in as common a regiment as may be found in the annals of the Civil War. They marched, camped, and fought their way through four years of service with their fair share of battle honors and few blemishes to mar their record. They rallied at Shiloh, stood firm at Corinth, laid siege to Vicksburg, rescued Chattanooga, and saved Allatoona. In short, they represented the backbone of the Federal volunteer army from 1861 to 1865. When the original Tigers returned to Viroqua at the close of the war, they numbered only fourteen men out of the more than 100 recruits who had been mustered into service.
This intimate unit history of the Badax Tigers chronicles the experiences of Company C of the 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the entire Civil War as seen through the eyes of Private Thomas Jefferson Davis. Davis's letters provide an extraordinarily complete picture of a typical Federal volunteer company in the Civil War. Supplemented by newspaper articles and the letters of some soldiers that were written and intended for publication in local newspapers, The Badax Tigers is a detailed and comprehensive portrait of the Civil War from the perspective of the average soldier.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-2084-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7111-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
364
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1 They Had About Become Bare-Assed Tigers No access Pages 11 - 34
2 Events of No Ordinary Character No access Pages 35 - 52
3 We Live As Woodchucks No access Pages 53 - 104
4 The Sound Was Anything But Musical No access Pages 105 - 134
5 The Canal That General Butler Commenced No access Pages 135 - 158
6 Closed Up Snugly Around Vicksburg No access Pages 159 - 192
7 They Have Kept Us Jogging Pretty Good No access Pages 193 - 218
8 An Open Confession Is Good for the Soul No access Pages 219 - 256
9 Sherman Is Slowly Driving the Rebs No access Pages 257 - 280
10 We Dosed Them with Blue Pills No access Pages 281 - 292
11 The News Is Glorious and the Future Is Bright No access Pages 293 - 320
12 I Will Never Be a Military Dog No access Pages 321 - 332
