On the River with the Army of the Tennessee
On the River with the Army of the Tennessee is an edited and annotated copy of the diary penned by my great-great grandfather, Dr William J. Rockwell as he tended the sick and wounded of 11th Indiana Regiment on board various boats as they steamed up the Tennessee River in 1862. He was a hospital steward and later an assistant surgeon serving with the F&S Company from his enlistment at Decatur, Indiana on July 10, 1861 until his discharge on June 27, 1863. His diary begins in a snowstorm at Fort Heiman on March 6, 1862 as they board boats for the short journey back downriver to Fort Henry where an armada of nearly 50 boats is being assembled for their trip up the river (using his words) into the heart of secession-dom.
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