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Showing posts with label Arkansas River. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arkansas River. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Diary of Private Seth J. Wells, January 21, 1863

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The boat shoved off at daylight and started down at 10 o'clock. We arrived at Helena, a small town, where we stopped about three hours, ...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan, Monday, January 16, 1865

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Splendid weather. Lt Sharman quite ill and in our qtrs. Reported (?) Shelby on the Ark river above here. I. N. Ritner dies in Hosp. Battalai...

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan, Wednesday, January 25, 1865

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Cold. off at daylight. road tolerable in Pine Bluffs at 12. camp at 1.30 1½ mile from town 40th Ia reported at the Rocks, and boats captured...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Sunday, February 5, 1865

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Morning ground covered with snow & sleet. damp ugly day. tore down our church for wood. Busy all day with Returns. 4 transports up Ark ...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Diary of 1st Sergeant John S. Morgan: Wednesday, January 25, 1865

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Cold. off at daylight. road tolerable in Pine Bluffs at 12. camp at 1.30 ½ mile from town 40th Ia reported at the Rocks, and boats captured...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Diary of 1st Sergeant John S. Morgan: Monday, January 16, 1865

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Splendid weather. Lt Sharman quite ill and in our qtrs. Reported (?) Shelby on the Ark river above here. I. N. Ritner dies in Hosp. Battala...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, August 24, 1862

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Have a dispatch from General Burnside at Falmouth, calling earnestly for five or six gunboats in the Potomac at Acquia Creek. Mentions havi...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, January 14, 1863

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Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, January 14, 1863. My Dear Wife: You have heard of our last ...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, January 12, 1863

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POST OF ARKANSAS, January 12, 1863. We carried the Post of Arkansas yesterday and captured all its stores and garrison, and Brigadier-G...