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Showing posts with label East TN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East TN. Show all posts
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 1, 1865

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Cloudy, cold, and dismal. We have no news except from the North, whence we learn Lieut. Beall, one of our Canada raiders, has been hung; tha...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 31, 1865

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Bright and frosty. The "peace commissioners" remained Sunday night at Petersburg, and proceeded on their way yesterday morning. ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Saturday, February 8, 1862

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Passing Chestnut Mound, our company put up for the night one mile beyond. The rest of the battalion remained near Chestnut Mound. Under th...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

Landon C. Haynes to Jefferson Davis, January 27, 1862

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KNOXVILLE, TENN., January 27 , 1862 . His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS,           President Confederate States of America: SIR: The Army of...

Isham G. Harris to John D. C. Atkins, January 27, 1862

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NASHVILLE, January 27 , 1862 . J. D. C. ATKINS, Member Congress: Crittenden can never rally troops [in] East Tennessee. Some other genera...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Brigadier-General William H. Carroll to Judah P Benjamin, December 13, 1861

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BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Knoxville, Tenn., December 13 , 1861 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War, Richmond, Va.: SIR ...

General Albert Sidney Johnston to Brigadier-General William H. Carroll, January 8, 1862

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[HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,]           January 8 , 1862 . Brigadier-General CARROLL, Knoxville: Send forward at once to this place ...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Monday, December 23, 1861

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I went back to camp, fifteen miles from Mr. West's. Zollicoffer wrote to A. S. Johnston, Bowling Green, Kentucky, as follows: SIR—I ...

Brigadier-General William H. Carroll to Major-General George B. Crittenden, December 9, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS RIFLE BRIGADE,           Knoxville, Tenn., December 9, 1861. Maj. Gen. G. B. CRITTENDEN, Knoxville: SIR: I have the honor he...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Brigadier-General Feliz K. Zollicoffer to Lieutenant-Colonel William W. Mackall, December 23,

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BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Beech Grove, Ky., December 23, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL,           Assistant Adjutant-General, Bowl...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Monday, December 16, 1861

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According to orders from Zollicoffer, McNairy moved his battalion back to Camp Hall, where he remained for about nine days longer. COMMENT...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Brigadier-General William H. Carroll to Judah P. Benjamin, November 26, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS, Knoxville, November 26 , 1861 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to report that I arri...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 26, 1864

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 Bright and cool. Gen. Early is still falling back; on Saturday he was at Port Republic, but he will soon be reinforced, and may turn the ...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Saturday, November 9, 1861

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Our brigade moved back from Anderson County to the vicinity of Jacksborough. McNairy's Battalion camped six miles south of town on the C...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer to Colonels Sidney S. Stanton, John P. Murray and George R. McClellan, October 31, 1861

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BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Cumberland Gap, October 31, 1861. Colonel S. S. STANTON, Colonel MURRAY, and Colonel McCLELLAN,           N...

William Blount Carter to Brigadier-General George H. Thomas, October 22, 1861

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MORGAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE, NEAR MONTGOMERY, October 22 , 1861 . (Received November 4.) Brigadier-General THOMAS: SIR: I reached here at ...

William Blount Carter to Brigadier-General George H. Thomas, October 27, 1861

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NEAR KINGSTON, ROANE COUNTY, TENNESSEE,           October 27 , 1861 . (Received November 4.) General THOMAS: SIR: I am now within a few ...

Acting Brigadier-General Samuel P. Carter to Brigadier-General George H. Thomas, November

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HEADQUARTERS EAST TENNESSEE BRIGADE,           Camp Calvert, November 16, 1861. (Received November 17.) Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, U. S. ...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Colonel William B. Wood to Judah Benjamin, November 20, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS,           Knoxville, November 20 , 1861 . SIR: The rebellion in East Tennessee has been put down in some of the counties, a...

Judah P. Benjamin to Colonel William B. Wood, November 25, 1861

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WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,           Richmond, November 25, 1861. Col. W. B. WOOD, Knoxville, Tenn.: SIR: Your report of the 20th instant* ...