When the Badax County Tigers left the small town of Viroqua; Wisconsin; in the autumn of 1861; they had little notion of what military service would demand of them. The Badax Tigers were as common a company in as common a regiment as may be found in the annals of the Civil War. They marched; camped; and fought their way through four years of service with their fair share of battle honors and few blemishes to mar their record. They rallied at Shiloh; stood firm at Corinth; laid siege to Vicksburg; rescued Chattanooga; and saved Allatoona. In short; they represented the backbone of the Federal volunteer army from 1861 to 1865. When the original Tigers returned to Viroqua at the close of the war; they numbered only fourteen men out of the more than 100 recruits who had been mustered into service.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's letters provide an extraordinarily complete picture of a typical Federal volunteer company in the Civil War. Supplemented by newspaper articles and the letters of some soldiers that were written and intended for publication in local newspapers; The Badax Tigers is a detailed and comprehensive portrait of the Civil War from the perspective of the average soldier.
#4087200 in Books Lexington Books 2013-06-06Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.24 x .81 x 6.30l; 1.00 #File Name: 0739178628204 pages
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