Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - VI. Events of 1863—The Siege of Vicksburg—Anecdotes about Gens. Logan, Stevenson and Grant—Little Rock Captured—Recruiting at Fort Snelling—The engagement at Fitzhugh’s Woods—Pine Bluff—Winter Quarters at Duvall’s Bluff—Death of Lincoln—Close of the War—The Third Regiment Disbanded
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ss Story of an Emigrant. 102
feci proiul of them, and they will prove themselves to be
worthy sons of the same wherever duty calls them."
Toward Christmas I was ordered to Fort Snelling, with
a detachment of officers and non-commissioned officers, for
the purpose of recruiting our decimated ranks. I remained
011 this duty till the month of March, and then returned
with four hundred recruits. Shortly afterwards the battle
of Fitzhugh’s Woods, near Augusta, Arkansas, was fought,
and the regiment distinguished itself by very gallant
conduct. During the stay in Little Rock most of the soldiers
had re-enlisted for three years, or until the close of the war,
whereby we acquired the title of "Veteran Regiment." But
that was not the only distinction which was conferred 011
our men. A large number of young soldiers had been
promoted from the ranks to be officers in several negro
regiments, which were organized in Tennessee and Arkansas,
and some as officers of new regiments of our own state.
Col. Andrews had meanwhile been promoted to the rank of
brigadier-general, and, in April, 1864-, I was promoted to
colonel of the regiment in his place, and was shortly
afterward ordered to march with its eight hundred men to Pine
Bluff, 011 the Arkansas river.
From this time until the beginning of August the regiment
experienced such hardships and sufferings from diseases and
hard service, that it sustained far greater losses from these
causes than anv other regiment from our state had met with
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in open battle. Pine Bluff was a veritable pest-hole; the
water was of a greenish color, the air full of germs ol
disease and poisonous vapors. Continually surrounded and
threatened by a vigilant enemy, the exhausted and sickly
soldiers had to get up at three o’clock every morning for the
purpose of working at the entrenchments and strengthening
and protecting our position in different ways. Meanwhile
the number of those fit for duty was daily decreasing at an
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