On to Atlanta: The Civil War Diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth Regiment of VolunteersHistorians have shown us the drama and sweep of the swathe Sherman's March cut through the South. Officers have bequeathed us accounts of what happened in strategic and practical terms. But for a gritty, day by day, on the ground view of what the march to Atlanta meant to the common soldier, nothing can compare to the diary of an enlisted man like John Hill Ferguson. A Scottish immigrant and a U. S. citizen since 1856, Ferguson enlisted in the