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March 1863 -"REQUISTION for FORAGE" Document 102nd Illinois Vols. - Gallatin, TN for Sale - Soviet-Awards.com

March 1863 -"REQUISTION for FORAGE" Document 102nd Illinois Vols. - Gallatin, TN For Sale

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March 1863 -"REQUISTION for FORAGE" Document 102nd Illinois Vols. - Gallatin, TN:
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Here is an ORIGINAL Union Civil War document dated March 1st, 1863 whereas The Union (102nd Illinois Vols.) troops are in need of "Corn / Hay" while stationed in Gallatin, Tennessee. Received / Requested for these Union Troops: 744 Pounds of Corn - 868 Pounds of Hay. Also 2 horses and their "daily allowance" is listed here.
This document was written / received in Gallatin (Sumner Co.), Tennessee on March 1st, 1863 and signed TWICE by Capt. H. (Horace) H. Willsie (see photo #6). At this time, the Quartermaster here in Gallatin, TN was Union Lt. F. H. Ruyan.
Size of this document is: 8.25' by 9.75' inches and in EXCELLENT condition.
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NOTE: See images # 8 - # 11 for more information on Captain H. H. Willsie Illinois Infantry
Regiment History

Adjutant General's Report

The One Hundred and Second Infantry Illinois Volunteers was organized at Knoxville, Ill., in August 1862, by Colonel William McMurtry, and mustered in September 1st and 2nd.

On 22nd September the Regiment moved to Peoria, Ill., and October 1 moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and was assigned to Ward’s Brigade, Dumont’s Division, and immediately moved southward, marching via Shelbyville, Frankfort, Bowling Green and Scottsville, to Gallatin, Tenn., arriving November 26.

The Regiment went into winter quarters in Gallatin.

About the 1st of May, 1863, the commander of the post at Gallatin received information that a band of guerrillas was moving in the direction of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad with the evident purpose of capturing a train with its rich store of mail and express matter. The point of attack selected was supposed to be near Franklin, not far from the state line. Colonel Smith, the commander of the Regiment, was called upon for a detail of 150 men with 80 rounds of ammunition, and the detachment immediately started out for Franklin, taking a north bound train. Upon arriving at the town a large number of citizens were observed about the depot whose nervous and excited manner indicated that trouble was expected. Colonel Smith divided his men, leaving 75 at Franklin, and with the remainder he started out for Bowling Green, expecting to meet a returning train at that point. They had scarcely proceeded more than three miles when the engineer discovered the rails displaced at the end of an embankment and blew the whistle for down brakes, and the train stopped just in time to avoid a fearful calamity. As soon as the train came to a stop a volley of musketry was fired upon the cars, shattering the windows, killing two men and wounding five more. The shots came from a piece of woods at the roadside where the enemy was well protected, but no sooner had the firing commenced than a volley was returned by our men, followed up by a charge upon the bushwhackers who took to their heels and made off as quickly as possible, leaving four dead and several wounded, of whom two afterward died of their wounds. The guerrillas were dispersed and the trains thereafter ran in comparative safety.

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