The Chicago Board of Trade Battery in the Civil War, Paperback / softback Book

The Chicago Board of Trade Battery in the Civil War Paperback / softback

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In July 1862, the directors of the Chicago Board of Trade used their significant influence to organize perhaps the most prominent Union artillery unit in the Western Theater.

Enlistees were Chicagoans, mainly clerks. During the Civil War, the battery was involved in 11 major battles, 26 minor battles and 42 skirmishes.

They held the center at Stones River, repulsing a furious Confederate attack.

A few days later, they joined 50 other Union guns in stopping one of the most dramatic offensives in the Western Theater.

With Colonel Robert Minty's cavalry, they resisted an overwhelming assault along Chickamauga Creek.

This history chronicles the actions of the Chicago Board of Trade Independent Light Artillery at the battles of Farmington, Dallas, Noonday Creek, Atlanta, in Kilpatrick's Raid, and at Nashville, and Selma.

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