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Showing posts with label Colored Troops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colored Troops. Show all posts
Monday, September 9, 2024

Major-General Henry W. Slocum: General Orders No. 7, May 18, 1864

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GENERAL ORDERS No. 7.} HDQRS. DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,           Vicksburg, Miss., May 18, 1864. The attention of the officers of this comma...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 6, 1864

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Bright and beautiful. Indian summer apparently. All quiet below—but it is anticipated by some that a battle will occur to-day, or in a day...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Sunday, December 11, 1864

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Cloudy and melting—snow vanishing rapidly. The thousand and one rumors of great achievements of Gen. Longstreet on the north side of the riv...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, October 20, 1863

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October 20. I never knew till today that "John Brown," the only son of Uncle York, was the first negro soldier who fell in this ...

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, November 24, 1863

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BEAUFORT, S. C. November 24. Today our companies E and K have proved themselves worthy, in a skirmish over the river, of all the praises t...

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, November 28, 1863

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November 28. My decision to resign my commission was a little depressing, and may have had some influence in bringing on the attack of ver...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864-January 23, 1865: No. 1. — Report of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, U. S. Army, commanding Department of the Cumberland

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No. 1. Report of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, U. S. Army,  commanding Department of the Cumberland. COLONEL: 1 On the 12th of November ...