Civil War

File — Box: 1, Folder: 9

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1: "Last strong hold of the Confederacy in the Battle of Selma. John Morgan played an important part for which he was given official recognition."
2-4: Remnant of the Regimental Flag of the 123rd Regiment of Illinois carried by Color Sergeant, John Morgan, during the last two years of the Civil War, 1862-1864.
5: group portrait of Civil War soldiers in uniform
6: "Staff at Cove Spring, near Stevenson, Alabama, before the great battle of Chickamauga in Georgia. The 123rd Reg. participated in these preliminary battles and Chickamauga, which are known in history as some of the bloodiest battles of the war. In 1877, J. Morgan served as a Mormon missionary and taught and baptized many of the same people who had fought in the bloody war fourteen years earlier."
7: Lee and Gordon=s Mills, a strategic point at Chickamauga.
8: "The Men Who Completed the Victory." Nashville Campaign of the Civil War.

Dates

circa mid to late 1800s

Conditions Governing Access

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