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Showing posts with label Chickasaw Bayou. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chickasaw Bayou. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Diary of Major Joseph Stockton, Monday, June 1, 1863

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Weather very warm. Men engaged in building roads through the ravines to connect the different camps. Our rations are now all right, getting ...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Sunday, April 13, 1862

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Two gun-boats and two transports came up to Chickasaw and landed about one hundred and twenty cavalry and three regiments of infantry about ...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Sunday, March 30, 1862

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I and two others being on picket within five miles of Chickasaw, and hearing the firing of artillery a little below, mounted our horses and ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

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...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 29, 1862

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We have a dispatch from Vicksburg at last. The enemy, 25,000 strong, were repulsed three times yesterday, and finally driven back seven mil...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to his sister Helen, January 1, 1864

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Headquarters First Brigade, Fourth Div., Seventeenth Army Corps, Department Of The Tennessee, “Camp Kilby” 1n The Field , January 1, ...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, August 26, 1863

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Headquarters Dept. Of The Tennessee, Vicksburg, Aug. 26, 1863. My Dear Mother: I attempted some description of these people in the...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Barnett Smith, April 9, 1863

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Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Div., Fifteenth Army Corps, “Young's Point,” La. , April 9, 1863. My Dear Bessie: How is ...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, April 3, 1863

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Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Div., Fifteenth Army Corps, Camp Before Vicksburg , April 3, 1863. My Dear Mother: We are ful...
Friday, June 6, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith and Eliza Walter Smith, January 30, 1863

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Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, “Young's Point,” Before Vicksburg, Jan. 30, 1863. My Dear ...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, January 7, 1863

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Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Second Army Corps, Army Of Miss., On Board Steamer "Sunny South," Jan. 7,1863....
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, January 3, 1863

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Headquarters Fourth Brigade, Second Div., “MilliKEN's Bend,” Louisiana , January 3, 1863. I seize a moment to write you a bri...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, January 28, 1863

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CAMP NEAR VICKSBURG, January 28, 1863. ... The politician thinks results can be had by breath, but how painfully it begins to come home...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, January 4, 1863

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ON BOARD Forest Queen, MILLIKEN'S BEND, January 4, 1863. Well, we have been to Vicksburg and it was too much for us, and we have ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Ninth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

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The ten companies of the Ninth Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry were ordered by the Governor to rendezvous at Dubuque, as part of the quo...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Fourth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

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The Fourth Iowa Infantry was organized under the proclamation of the President, dated May 3, 1861. The companies composing the regiment were...