The Badax Tigers From Shiloh to the Surrender with the 18th Wisconsin Volunteers

by Nanzig, Thomas P.

• ISBN13: 9780742520844
• ISBN10: 0742520846
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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' letters provide an extraordinarily complete picture of a typical Federal volunteer company in the Civil War and are supplemented by newspaper articles and some soldiers' letters.

Author Biography

Thomas P. Nanzig is currently a history and genealogy collections editor with ProQuest Information and learning in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also the president of the Ann Arbor Civil War Round Table.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
They Had About Become Bare-Assed Tigers	11	(24)
Events of No Ordinary Character	35	(18)
We Live As Woodchucks	53	(52)
The Sound Was Anything But Musical	105	(30)
The Canal That General Butler Commenced	135	(24)
Closed up Snugly Around Vicksburg	159	(34)
They Have Kept Us Jogging Pretty Good	193	(26)
An Open Confession is Good for the Soul	219	(38)
Sherman Is Slowly Driving the Rebs	257	(24)
We Dosed Them with Blue Pills	281	(12)
The News Is Glorious and the Future Is Bright	293	(28)
I Will Never Be a Military Dog	321	(12)
Postscript	333	(2)
Bibliography	335	(4)
18th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Statistics	339	(2)
18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Organizational Chart: 1862-1865	341	(2)
Roster of Company C, 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry	343	(6)
Badax Tigers Statistics	349	(2)
Index	351