Excerpt from Army Life of an Illinois Soldier Infantry. Early days of drill, expectancy and enthusiasm. Traitors and spies in camp. Primitive arms and equipment. Rough side of camp life. False alarms of threatened defective attacks. Hospital service. Whipping and hanging of Union men in Missouri and Mem phis. First uniforms. Reconnoitering down the Mississippi. River communication with the South cut off. Sleeping on cornstalks, ord wood, gates and rails in the rain. First experience in tents. Scouting in search of a fight. Promoted sergeant. Learning to confiscate and appropriate. Acting sheriff of court martial. En trenching and bridge guarding. Hunting the elusive Jeff Thomp son. Cramping live stock on a Rebel plantation. Taking further liberties with Rebel property. Adverse opinion of the Belmont fight. Log houses for winter quarters. Skinned deer that ate like pork. Heavy muster of gunboats. A New Year's frolic in camp. Investigating a disloyal regiment. Murder in a pirate's den. Mismanaged river expedition. Commissioned first lieutenant of cavalry and appointed battalion adj utant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.