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Showing posts with label East TN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East TN. Show all posts
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Diary of Musician David Lane, October 23, 1863— 7 p. m.

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Loudon.   This has been a dismal day. It reminds me of the day we crossed the Potomac last fall. It began to rain at 5 o'clock this morn...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Diary of Elvira J. Powers, Tuesday, April 12, 1864

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Have visited Hospital, No. 8, as well as No. 1, several times since I have been here, and am priviledged to carry some delicacies, and write...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Diary of Musician David Lane, September 9, 1863

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Crab Orchard, Ky.       Again has the note of preparation sounded in our camp, and all hands are busy getting ready for another campaign. In...

Diary of Musician David Lane, September 13, 1863

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London, Ky.       We broke camp last Thursday morning, the tenth of September, bound for Cumberland Gap, ninety miles distant. The first day...

Diary of Musician David Lane, September 20, 1863

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Cumberland Gap.       We are now in East Tennessee, one mile south of the famous Gap in the Cumberland Mountains. When we left Crab Orchar...

Diary of Musician David Lane, September 25, 1863

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The Fair Ground, on which we are encamped, is simply a clearing in the wood, without buildings, fence or shade. But it is a pleasant place, ...
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...