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8 WITH THE RANK AND FILE.
back into line. The Colonel was calling for me. He sent Adjutant McArthur out in front after me, at the same time calling aloud, "You man with the red shirt, fall back."
I knew that meant me, so I looked around and saw Adjutant IMcArthur galloping to the front and the regiment was back in the rear. Too quick did I about face and double-quick to my place in the front rank of my company. That night I lay on the ground Avitli nothing between me and the blue sky but my shirt, pants, shoes and cap.
Another incident. Just before the Battle of Stone Eiver I received a box of fine cut chewing and smoking tobacco from an uncle of mine in Mil¬ waukee. We got orders that night to get ready for the march in the morning, I did not know what to do with my big box of tobacco, containing eleven dollars' worth, done up in Milwaukee. A rare thing to get—Milwaukee tobacco. Some of the company boys helped me to do it up in packages from fifty cents' worth to a dollar a
Object Description
| Title | With the Rank and File: Incident and Anecdotes During the War of the Rebellion and Remembered by One of the Non-Commissioned Officers |
| Source Title | Thomas J. Ford's With the Rank and File: Incident and Anecdotes During the War of the Rebellion and Remembered by One of the Non-Commissioned Officers |
| Regiment | 24th Infantry |
| Volume | 1 |
| Author/Creator | Ford, Thomas J. |
| Description | Thomas J. Ford (1836?-1900?) was an Irish immigrant who came to Milwaukee County in 1848 with his family. He gave up farming to enlist with his brother and his father on August 18, 1862. Ford became Sergeant of Company H of the 24th Wisconsin Infantry and, although wounded, served until June 1865. His 95-page memoir describes being wounded at the Battle of Adairsville on May 17, 1864, and the battles of Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Nashville, Dandridge, and Franklin. Ford's accounts are particularly vivid and graphic, and cover a broad range of topics in addition to combat. |
| Subcollection | Personal Narratives |
| Source | Microfiche |
| Source Type | personal narrative |
| Place of Publication | Milwaukee |
| Source Creation Date | 1898 |
| Source Publisher | Press of the Evening Wisconsin Co. |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2011 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2011 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Digital Identifier | CWPN007010000 |
Description
| Title | 8 |
| Source Title | Thomas J. Ford's With the Rank and File: Incident and Anecdotes During the War of the Rebellion and Remembered by One of the Non-Commissioned Officers |
| Regiment | 24th Infantry |
| Volume | 1 |
| State | TN |
| People | Ford, Thomas J., Sergt. |
| Battle | Stones River, Battle of |
| Source Type | personal narrative |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2011 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2011 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Digital Format | JPG |
| Full text | 8 WITH THE RANK AND FILE. back into line. The Colonel was calling for me. He sent Adjutant McArthur out in front after me, at the same time calling aloud, "You man with the red shirt, fall back." I knew that meant me, so I looked around and saw Adjutant IMcArthur galloping to the front and the regiment was back in the rear. Too quick did I about face and double-quick to my place in the front rank of my company. That night I lay on the ground Avitli nothing between me and the blue sky but my shirt, pants, shoes and cap. Another incident. Just before the Battle of Stone Eiver I received a box of fine cut chewing and smoking tobacco from an uncle of mine in Mil¬ waukee. We got orders that night to get ready for the march in the morning, I did not know what to do with my big box of tobacco, containing eleven dollars' worth, done up in Milwaukee. A rare thing to get—Milwaukee tobacco. Some of the company boys helped me to do it up in packages from fifty cents' worth to a dollar a |
| Digital Identifier | CWPN007010010 |