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Showing posts with label Bull Nelson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bull Nelson. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, April 7, 1862

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Last night was a doleful night as the soldiers laid in this wilderness by the Tennessee. All night long there was a chilling rain, and the ...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, April 6, 1862

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A beautiful, bright, pleasant morning. The men of the Tenth Brigade are putting their guns in order and brushing their uniforms for the pa...

Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, April 7, 1862

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3 a.m. —Less rain. General Nelson, that energetic and wide-awake officer, is at my headquarters, near a large tree, and issues his orders ...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, March 31, 1862

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General Nelson directs me to conduct the march so as to reach Savannah, Tenn., Monday, April 7, as we are not wanted there before that time....

Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, April 5, 1862

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Marched 9½ miles over bad roads, and reached Savannah, Tenn., before 12 m. General Grant was not at his headquarters (Savannah), and no one...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, March 27, 1862

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Late in the evening General Nelson in returning from General Buell’s headquarters, informed me that he had General Buell’s permission to ta...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Brigadier-General George W. Cullum, February, 25, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Fort Donelson, February 25 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. G. W. CULLUM, Cairo, Ill.: I wrote you tha...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Brigadier-General William Nelson, February 24, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Fort Donelson, February 24 , 1862 . General NELSON, Commanding Division, Department of the ...

Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, April 3, 1862

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Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. Camp.  April 3, 1862. Dearest Ellen, I have really neglected writing for some days.   I don’t know why, bu...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, April 5, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Savannah, April 5 , 1862 . GENERAL: Just as my letter of yesterday to Captain McLean, assis...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Julia Dent Grant, May 4, 1862

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Monterey Ten. May 4th 1862 D EAR J ULIA , Olando Ross has just arrived bringing a letter for me from you and also one from father. Th...