William Calkins. The History of the One Hundred and Fourth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, War of the Great Rebellion. Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1895.
Calkins was 1st Lt., Co. E, 104th, and aide de camp staff, Gen. John Beatty.
257. Sherman Leland said of first day's march, Nov. 15, near Stone Mountain. "The weather was clear and perfect and the wrought-up expectations of the men found expression in mirth and song, "Old John Brown" and other popular pieces being sung with a vim that must have had an effect, pleasant or otherwise, on the natives of the country, white and black."
265 [ca. Nov. 30, after crossing Ogeechee River and Rocky Creek, "...where for the first time, cypress trees and palms were seen ..."
C.C. Courtright of Co. G - "The negroes had a grand jubilee after dark; the boys built a platform, provided a fiddle, and the darkies more than hoed it down, one old fellow dancing on his head and keeping time to the music."
musician William J. Porter - enlisted from Fall River 1862 as a musician. d. Marseilles, Ill., Jan. 19, 1893
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