On the above day and date commenced one of the great battles of the "War Between the States," generally known as the "Battle ...

Johnston dispatched thus to the Secretary of War from Shelbyville: My army will move beyond this to-day on the road to Decatur. One brigad...

SHELBYVILLE, March 4 , 1862 . J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War: My army will move beyond this to-day on the road to Decatur. One brigade ...

I am still at Barnum's, and having transferred my sick to the charge of Mr. S., I have a little more time to think, and to journalize my...

I left home* to rejoin the battalion near Murfreesboro. After a ride of nineteen miles I, with several others of Allison's Company, stop...

Crittenden's Division, to which McNairy's Battalion still belonged, took up the line of march again for Corinth Mississippi. Passing...

Passing Chestnut Mound, our company put up for the night one mile beyond. The rest of the battalion remained near Chestnut Mound. Under th...

The deepest snow of the season was on the ground that morning—about half an inch deep. General Crittenden was now ordered by General Johns...

By daylight all of Colonel Statham's Brigade had crossed Caney Fork except a few wagons. Before night General Carroll's Brigade, exc...

HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,           Edgefield, February 14, 1862. Major-General CRITTENDEN, C. S. A.,           Commanding Chestnut M...

HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,           Edgefield, Tenn., February 14, 1862. Major-General CRITTENDEN,           Commanding Chestnut Mou...

HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,           Edgefield, February [17, 1862]. Major-General CRITTENDEN,           Commanding Chestnut Mound: ...

On the above day and date was fought the memorable BATTLE OF FISHING CREEK, On “Logan's Cross Roads,” near Mill Springs. The follo...