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This is the story of the eleven Companies of the "Fighting
Fourteenth Regiment" as seen through the eyes of James William
Covington, a self-styled "blacksmith with a literary turn" and
member of the Regimental Band, along with seven other soldiers who
recorded their thoughts and feelings in journals and letters to
their loved ones. They were common men who lived in the most
uncommon of times and as such, were called upon to perform uncommon
deeds. It is seen against the backdrop of our country's greatest
struggle; a war that pitted brother against brother, father against
son, and took the lives of more Americans than all the combined
wars before or since.
This is the story of the four McDonough County residents from
Bushnell and Prairie City who received the Congressional Medal of
Honor for their heroic acts during the Civil War. Chaplain Milton
Haney, Sergeant Jacob Sanford and Corporal Robert M. Cox were
volunteers in the Fifty-fifth Illinois Regiment and Samuel
McConnell served as a Captain with the 119th Illinois Volunteers,
But this story is not theirs alone. One-hundred twenty-nine brave
men from Bushnell, Prairie City and Marietta served in Companies F
and G of the Fifty-fifth Regiment and 35 gave their very lives to
preserve the union that we now call the United States of America.
The Ninth Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers was organized and sworn
in at Camp Moore, Louisiana, on July 6, 1861. Of the ten companies,
six had joined for the duration of the war and the remainder (which
included Company D) for a period of twelve months. The regiment,
which was commanded by Colonel Richard Taylor, was immediately
dispatched to Virginia but arrived too late to be engaged at the
First Battle of Manassas. So many men had fallen to disease that by
the early spring of 1862, the entire Confederate Army was
re-organized and the 9th Louisiana Infantry Regiment joined with
the 6th, 7th, 8th Regiments and Wheat's Battalion under the command
of Brig. Gen. Richard Taylor with Col. Leroy Augustus Stafford in
command of the 9th Louisiana Infantry. Known as "The Louisiana
Brigade" Taylor's Brigade was placed in General Richard Ewell's
Division and joined the command of General Stonewall Jackson.
During the "Valley Campaign" between May 7 and June 9, 1862 it was
engaged at Somerville Heights, Front Royal, Middletown, First
Winchester, Front Royal, Mount Carmel, Cross Keys, and the
"Coaling" at Port Republic. Following the Seven Day's battles, the
Louisiana Brigage followed Jackson to Second Manassas, Antietam and
finally Fredericksburg. Following Jackson's death, they followed
Lee to Gettysburg, Spottsylvania and the siege of Petersburg. Of
the twelve thousand Louisiana men who came to Virginia in 1861 and
1862, the Louisiana Tigers had 373 men on duty when the folded
their colors at Appomattox. The 9th Louisiana Regiment was the
largest remaining regiment among them with a compliment of 68 men.
They surrendered but were never defeated.
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