ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS





I would like to acknowledge the following persons and organizations who collectively made possible my online revisions to Three Soldiers of Valor:

  • The National Park Service for their permission to use Edwin C. Bearss' Troop Movement Maps for the Battle of Arkansas Post.  Special thanks to Brian K. McCutchen, Historian, Arkansas Post National Memorial.
  • Bruce Schulze, webmaster of Civil War Album.com, for finding the Battle of Mansfield Troop Deployment Map and for use of his battlefield photographs from Vicksburg and Sabine Crossroads (Mansfield).

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  • The staff of the Special Collections Center at Bradley University, who are responsible for holding the archival materials for the Peoria Historical Society, including the diary and letters of Daniel B. Allen.  In particular, thanks to Charles Frey and Sherri Schneider for their kindness and valuable assistance.

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  • The Peoria Historical Society, who granted me permission to use excerpts from the diary and letters of Daniel B. Allen.  In particular, thanks to Kathy Belsley and Susannah Bowles.
  • David Clemens of Monterey Peninsula College in California, for his permission to reprint the "Sabine Cross Roads" poem.

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  • Terrence Winschel, Historian at the Vicksburg National Military Park and author of The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier, for his encouragement and assistance in uncovering details about the 77th Illinois' assault upon the Railroad Redoubt.  His fine book is available from the LSU Press.

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  • Stephen E. Williams and Don D. Worth, creators of the 48th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry website, for providing supporting material for many of the military campaigns that were also fought by the 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.  In general, their website provided me with a level of excellence to which I hope to aspire.