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I hve been reading Ho! For the War by Mark R. Dawson on the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry Regiment... It's more of a secondary source, but it is well documented. I thought these would be interesting in light of the up coming Shiloh event where some of us intend on portraying the 11th...
“Nothing but sabers and revolvers. More than three months passed before we were issued anything else, and then only ten carbines were distributed for the whole company.”
“I carried one [a saber] for four years and never drew it from the scabbard, except for drilling, or on parade”
Pg.59, Sergeant Allen and Private Renick : a memoir of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, written by Henry A. Allen, and from the papers of Mother Bickerdyke : a three volume Civil War diary for 1862, 1863, 1864, written by John H. Renick
"We arrived on the battlefield about 10:20 o'clock [pm] and didn't know whether we were going into our lines or theirs..."
"Badly armed, they sat on their horses with revolvers their only weapons"
“Just at this moment two of the men sent with the first companies came riding furiously back to camp – both wounded and one of their horses fell dead – having been struck by a piece of shell. At this time there appeared to be a general stampede of our forces… We immediately put ourselves across the road to stop the panic which we succeeded in doing.” – Colonel Robert Ingersoll, 11th Illinois Cavalry, (in a letter to his brother) April 11th, 1862
From the same letter as above: “Four killed, one 1st Lieut.- twenty wounded and missing and had sixty-seven horses killed or wounded so as to be worthless.”
“Nothing but sabers and revolvers. More than three months passed before we were issued anything else, and then only ten carbines were distributed for the whole company.”
“I carried one [a saber] for four years and never drew it from the scabbard, except for drilling, or on parade”
Pg.59, Sergeant Allen and Private Renick : a memoir of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, written by Henry A. Allen, and from the papers of Mother Bickerdyke : a three volume Civil War diary for 1862, 1863, 1864, written by John H. Renick
"We arrived on the battlefield about 10:20 o'clock [pm] and didn't know whether we were going into our lines or theirs..."
"Badly armed, they sat on their horses with revolvers their only weapons"
“Just at this moment two of the men sent with the first companies came riding furiously back to camp – both wounded and one of their horses fell dead – having been struck by a piece of shell. At this time there appeared to be a general stampede of our forces… We immediately put ourselves across the road to stop the panic which we succeeded in doing.” – Colonel Robert Ingersoll, 11th Illinois Cavalry, (in a letter to his brother) April 11th, 1862
From the same letter as above: “Four killed, one 1st Lieut.- twenty wounded and missing and had sixty-seven horses killed or wounded so as to be worthless.”
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