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Showing posts with label Bridgeport AL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bridgeport AL. Show all posts
Sunday, July 1, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 3, 1864

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Twelve miles east of Bridgeport, May 3, 1864. Have made about 15 miles to-day. This is the fourth time I have been over the same ground...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: December 29, 1863

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Near Larkinsville, Ala., December 29, 1863. We have had some busy times since my last. Foraging for horses, looking for something to ea...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: December 19, 1863

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Greasy Cove, Jackson Co., Ala., December 19, 1863. On examination of my pockets this morning, I find a letter I wrote you a week since....
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: January 23, 1864

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At 5 filled box cars. Rode outside. Cold and frosty. Very crooked road winding among the mountains south of Tenn. River. 7th on at Bridgepo...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Major Charles A. Dana to Edwin M. Stanton, September 23, 1863 – 11:30 a.m.

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CHATTANOOGA, September 23 , 1863 — 11 . 30 a.m. The net result of the campaign thus far is that we hold Chattanooga and the line of T...

Brigadier-General John A. Garfield to Salmon P. Chase, September 23, 1863 – 10:30 a.m.

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,              September 23 , 1863 — 10 . 30 a.m.       (Received War Department 10 p.m.) ...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Major-General Joseph Hooker to Edwin M. Stanton, October 11, 1863

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STEVENSON, ALA., October 11 , 1863 .       (Received 2 . 20 a.m., 12 th.) Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: If you project...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Charles A. Dana to Edwin M. Stanton, October 16, 1863 – 12 p.m.

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CHATTANOOGA, October 16 , 1863 — 12 m. For fifteen hours little rain has fallen, but the skies remain threatening and the barometer ...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Major Charles Fessenden Morse: October 28, 1863

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Wartrace, Tenn ., October 28,1863. When I wrote you last, I thought we were off immediately for the front, but the following day brough...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Major Charles Fessenden Morse: October 23, 1863

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Wartrace, Tenn ., October 23, 1863. We had just got comfortably settled down at this place when, yesterday, orders came to General Sloc...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

First Lieutenant Andrew G. Henderson to his Family, December 22, 1863

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Stevenson, Alabama December 22, 1863 My Dear Ones, Our regiment reached here yesterday evening having started from our camp at Brid...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Southern News

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BEFORE CORINTH, May 18. The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph condemns in severe language the conduct of the rebel troops at Bridgeport, “by which...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

From Gen. Mitchell’s Division

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 4th. Hon. E. M. Stanton;– Your dispatch is received.   A soldier’s highest reward for service is to merit and re...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Bridge over the Cumberland River Destroyed

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ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19. – A Union scout who has been operating up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers reached here this morning and reports one ...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

From Gen. Mitchell’s Column

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HUNTSVILLE, ALA., May 4. Hon E. M. Stanton – Your dispatch is received.   A soldiers highest reward for his service is to merit and receiv...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Operations in Northern Alabama

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BRIDGEPORT, Ala., April 30, 1862 Gen. Mitchell has finished his campaign, by the complete victory which he gained over the forces of Gen. E....
Saturday, March 6, 2010

Special to Tribune.

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An officer from Corinth, according to the Atlanta Confederacy, reports that the Confederate lines extend over the recent battle ground, and ...