Moved from Centralia, Illinois, March 10, 1864, via Louisville, Kentucky, Nashville, Tennessee, and Scottsboro, Alabama to Chattanooga. From thence May 3, 1864 via Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain to Atlanta. In the Hood campaign moved to Marietta, Resaca, and to Jacksonville, Alabama, and returned to Atlanta.

Nov. 15, 1864, moved with General Shermanís Army (Grandpa was with Sherman on his March to the Sea and they suffered great hardships as they carried no provisions but lived off the land--and there was little enough to find to eat), arriving at the fortifications of Savannah, Dec. 11, and at Fort McAllister 13th. Thence to Savannah, Jan. 1 , 1865. From thence by water to Beaufort. Thence moved, Jan. 21, via Pocotaligo, Branchville, Orangeburg to Columbia. Thence via Camden, Fayetteville, and Bentonville to Goldboro, N.C. From thence April 10, to Raleigh. Thence via Lewisburg, Warrentown, Lawrenceville, Petersburg, and Richmond to Washington, D.C. From thence June 2, 1865 via Parkersburg, Virginia to Louisville, Kentucky.

June 25, moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. Mustered out August 15, 1865, and moved to Camp Butler, Illinois, arriving August 21, 1865.

Distance marched, 3,000 miles. Moved by water, 5,000 miles. By railroad 3450. Total, 11,450 miles.

Was engaged in the following battles:

Resaca, Georgia, May 13 to 16, 1864
Dallas, Georgia, May 26 to 31, 1864
New Hope Church, Georgia, June 1 to 7, 1864
Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 10 to July 3, 1864
(Here, Grandpa said, they fought above the clouds)
Sandtown, Georgia, July 5 to 12, 1864
Decatur, Georgia, July 19, 1864
Atlanta, Georgia, July 21, 22, 28, 1864
Siege of Atlanta, Georgia, July 28 to August 26, 1864
Jonesboro, Georgia, August 31, 1864
Lovejoy, Georgia, Sept. 3 and 4, 1864
Fort McAllister, Georgia, December 13, 1864
Siege of Savannah, Georgia, December, 1864
Duck Creek, South Carolina, February 3, 1865
South Edisto River, South Carolina, February 9, 1865
Columbia, February 15 and 16, 1865
Bentonville, North Carolina, March 20, 1865

This record has been copied from the war record of Anthony McGrale
These men were without blankets, without rations, without overcoats and but half shod they made the long march to the sea over territory swept bare of every sort of crop or provisions of any sort. Grandpa told of trading a blanket full of oysters for a ham. He told, too, of foraging expeditions in search of food. They suffered terribly.

(Hand written below this:)
We can be proud of his record. NR