General William P. Carlin and Staff. Early in the war Carlin made a name
for himself as colonel of the Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry, which was
stationed at Pilot Knob, Missouri, and was kept constantly alert by the
raids of Price and Jeff Thompson. Carlin rose rapidly to be the commander
of a brigade, and joined the forces in Tennessee in 1862. He distinguished
himself at Perryville and in the advance to Murfreesboro. At Stone's River
his brigade, almost surrounded, repulsed an overwhelming force of
Confederates. This picture was taken a year after that battle, while the
brigade was in winter quarters at Ringgold, Georgia. The band-stand was
built by the General's old regiment.
[Illustration: AN UNCEASING WORK OF WAR