-Roll of Honor XI
Corpl Co G 111th Illinois. Orig Bur: Resaca, Ga.
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"June 10th we moved to the front and went into camp at Big Shanty. 13th we were ordered to the left in support of the Fourth Division who assaulted the enemy's works and captured a large number of prisoners..."
-Report of the adjutant general of the state of Illinois ..., Volume 6, History of One hundred and eleventh Illinois Infantry. p. 146.
See also: Gibson Burton.∼Soldier in General Sherman's army during its march to the sea through Georgia in the American Civil War. Died of wounds eleven days after they were suffered at Big Shanty, Georgia. Member of the 111th Illinois Infantry Regiment. Samuel Anderson Jolliff, Gibson's half brother, was a 1st Lieutenant in the same regiment, and it was commanded by another half brother, Reuben William Jolliff. Samuel and Reuben survived the war.
-Roll of Honor XI
Corpl Co G 111th Illinois. Orig Bur: Resaca, Ga.
-interment.net
"June 10th we moved to the front and went into camp at Big Shanty. 13th we were ordered to the left in support of the Fourth Division who assaulted the enemy's works and captured a large number of prisoners..."
-Report of the adjutant general of the state of Illinois ..., Volume 6, History of One hundred and eleventh Illinois Infantry. p. 146.
See also: Gibson Burton.∼Soldier in General Sherman's army during its march to the sea through Georgia in the American Civil War. Died of wounds eleven days after they were suffered at Big Shanty, Georgia. Member of the 111th Illinois Infantry Regiment. Samuel Anderson Jolliff, Gibson's half brother, was a 1st Lieutenant in the same regiment, and it was commanded by another half brother, Reuben William Jolliff. Samuel and Reuben survived the war.
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ILL 111 G L-261 - Duplicated by #41396067
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