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Showing posts with label Forage Trains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forage Trains. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2026

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones: Friday, November 21, 1862

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Moscow. Weather cold and frosty. 2 Р. М. bugle sounded the assembly, "Fall in", when we were given orders to prepare to march imme...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Wednesday, January 8, 1862

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Two companies of Brazelton's Battalion, fifty men from McNairy's, and about five companies of infantry went about ten miles up the s...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, July 14, 1862

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MOSCOW, July 14 , 1862 . General HALLECK: Yesterday one of our forage trains, guarded by fifty cavalry, was fired on by a party that...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 19, 1863

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Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., March 19, 1863. Nine whole days of the most beautiful sunshiny weather imaginable. Warm...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Diary of Luman Harris Tenney: Sunday, November 2, 1862

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In the morning read Oct. Atlantic. In the P. M. finished Fannie's letter. Detail came for Lt. or trusty Srgt. to go out with 30 men as ...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Saturday, August 22, 1863

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Moved camp in timber five miles from pontroon bridge ––– scarce and thick with ––– Division forage train ––– trains go out, fired into ––– ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fessenden Morse: October 26, 1864

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Atlanta, Ga. , October 26, 1864. Yesterday, Captain Crowninshield and Mr. Storrow arrived, after a long journey of thirty days. I think...