Excerpt from From Vicksburg to Raleigh: Or a Complete History of the Twelfth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and the Campaigns of Grant and Sherman, With an Outline of the Great Rebellion Services it records. The author offers no apology for ad ding to the long list of books with which the press is teeming, upon the subject of our recent struggle for the permanency of free institutions. The field of thought and range of topics are so wide that a record of individual ex perience and observation, as well as the movements of armies, will command attention, since all well understand that the glory of our arms has been secured through the efliciency of the individual soldier, under subordinate com manders. While our great leaders and their noble armies are exalted to the highest position of honor, it will not be deemed presumptuous for the various sub-divisions of those armies to claim their right to be heard. The object of this volume is to present the outline of the operations in the Valley of the Mississippi and in the several Cotton States, in which the Twelfth Indiana Volunteer Infantry participated. If the numerous friends of the Indiana soldiers are led to appreciate their services more fully by reading this volume, the aim of the author will be secured. 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.