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41st TN INF CSA
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41st TN INF CSA
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Sunday, January 28, 2024
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 24, 1863
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We stopped at Natchez for nearly an hour, and in that short space of time nearly every officer and man got decently drunk. Some of our crew ...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 24, 1863—7 p.m.
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We had to stop and take on wood this morning, and that let the Indianola get a start on us, but we are in sight again. She is around a sharp...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 24, 1863—12 p.m. [sic, likely 12 a.m. February 25]
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12 o'clock p. m.—We came up with the enemy at half-past ten, and, after a spirited engagement of forty minutes, she surrendered to us un...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 25, 1863
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We took one hundred and five prisoners on board the Indianola, and a few are said to have gone down the river on a coal barge. The Beatty wa...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 25, 1863—7 p.m.
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About 4 o'clock this afternoon we went up the river to bring down a company of artillery, and one of cavalry, to assist us in raising an...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 16, 1863
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After a very cold night spent in sleeplessness, I arose, determined to have something better to eat than our daily ration of coarse meal and...
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Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 17, 1863
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Went out this morning for small hog, but couldn't find aged colored individual, so had to go back to camp porkless and in bad humor. Hav...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 18, 1863
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Lee Kelly died last night of small-pox. He came down with a party of twenty-two of us some five weeks since. He was the liveliest of the par...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 20, 1863
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Yesterday my brother-in-law, Jack Smith, came in as a recruit, and, to my great disappointment, brought me no letters. I am certainly the mo...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 21, 1863
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Yesterday I was on guard for the first time since I went soldiering. I cannot say that I particularly like the fun, but it gives one an oppo...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 22, 1863
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It is reported to-day that the enemy is coming up the river; if this is the case, I will have an "item" shortly. I have been sorel...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 23, 1863
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An anecdote is told of James B. Wilson, of the Forty-first, during the late fight at Vicksburg, which should have appeared in its proper con...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, Sunday, January 24, 1863
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Our faces were considerably elongated this morning by the report that John Bland, of our company, was taking the small-pox. As John circulat...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 6, 1863
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We have had no excitement since we left Vicksburg. Nothing has transpired here to cause a "yell" even. We have lived out the allot...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 8, 1863
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Yesterday we moved back into civilization, and took up quarters in a swamp near the broad Mississippi. Have a good camping-ground for this c...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, February 15, 1863
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Another week has passed over without any excitement, save what is occasioned by the preparations for the attack on the Indianola, and what i...
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, December 27, 1862—8 p.m.
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VICKSBURG, MISS.—We left Jackson this morning and arrived at this place a few minutes since, traveling forty miles by rail in twelve hours, ...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, December 28, 1862—8 a.m.
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Left our bivouac in Vicksburg this morning at 2 o'clock, and moved in darkness through mud and over hills; just before day, halted at ou...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 1, 1863
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We have spent three days in front of the enemy, and, notwithstanding the fact that we have been under the fire of one of their batteries and...
Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, January 2, 1863
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Yesterday passed off in comparative quiet; a few shot and shell thrown from our batteries into the lines of the enemy, and a few rounds from...
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