James Walker began this the day after the battle was fought,  on commission of General Daniel Butterfield.
Originally hung in the War Department, it is now in the Oneida County  Historical Society in Utica, New York

In their own words, the story of the 129th Illinois Infantry and comrades, from enlistment through their first battle, with Benjamin Harrison and Hooker's 20th Corps, compiled from letters, diaries, official records, newspapers, and regimental histories. A tapestry from the yarns they spun about lives of soldiers and ambitions of generals, converging in a long afternoon on a hillside in Georgia. 

“We had to fight Hooker's command here or else the battery never would have been taken … They all wore a star.” – Max Van Den Corput

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