23rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry

On this page you will find correspondence and reports from the field by commanders and soldiers relative to the movements and actions of the 23rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry.

• Reports from Lt. Colonel Quin Morton 1861-1863

• Report of Battle of Shiloh by Captain Archibald Montgomery, April 10, 1862

• Ruggles Division, CSA - Report by Col. Preston Pond on surrender of Lt. Col. Quinn Morton's sword April 6, 1862

• Report on the Battle of Shiloh - April 1862 by Lt. Col Quin Morton (Delayed due to POW status)

• Battle of Lexington Missouri - Prisoner Exchange for later members of the 23rd Missouri

• Mutiny at Benton Barracks - Parolled Iowa Prisoners supervised by the 23rd Missouri

• Lt N.J. Camp and Lt George Brown escape from POW Camp Oglethorpe GA and make it to Washington D.C July 1862

• Pvt James Baldwin escapes and recaptured from POW Camp Oglethorpe, Macon GA November 6, 1862

• Report from Col. William P. Robinson - 1864 McMinnville Tennessee

• Battle of Atlanta Report 1864

• Order 119, Nov. 8, 1864 - Maj. General William Sherman's instructions for the March through Georgia

• March to the Sea - Report of Major General Slocum

• Battle of Goldsborough - Report of Major J.H. Jolly March 28, 1865

• Gooch Family Letters from the field by the 23rd Missouri Veterans

• Milan Republican Newspaper - 1881 Veteran Reunion

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