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Showing posts with label Fort Henry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Henry. Show all posts
Monday, September 2, 2024

Diary of Private Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Tuesday, February 3, 1863

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Started before day for Fort Donelson. Had to walk to keep from freezing. Got to the Fort about three hours by sun. Our Regiment sent on Fort...
Monday, March 4, 2024

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Tuesday, February 25, 1862

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I left home* to rejoin the battalion near Murfreesboro. After a ride of nineteen miles I, with several others of Allison's Company, stop...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne, September 11, 1862

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We heard heavy firing this morning, from the direction of the city, which we at first thought must be fighting going on there, but which we ...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

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...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, February 17, 1862

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This morning the boys in blue are everywhere in and around Fort Donelson, scattered among the boys in gray, rehearsing the scenes they have...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862

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There is a clear blue sky over head. Aids and orderlies are moving hither and thither; drums are beating and bugles are blowing as if to say...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, February 8, 1862

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This morning we are still at the Fort. This place looks as though it had passed through a terrible storm. We will now take a stroll over the...

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, February 9, 1862

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This morning troops are landing. Everywhere around Fort Henry, inside and outside the fortifications, the camp fires are burning. About twen...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday Morning, February 3, 1862

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The regiment takes passage on board the steamer City of Memphis, for parts unknown. Being nearly all day loading the camp and garrison equip...

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Thursday, February 6, 1862

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It is raining this morning; has been all night. There may be poetry in war, but there is no poetry in Camp Halleck (the name given to this c...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General George B. McClellan, February 7, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, February 7 , 1862 . Fort Henry was taken yesterday, with seventeen he...

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Lorenzo Thomas, February 11, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, February 11 , 1862 . GENERAL: Inclosed herewith I have the honor to ...

Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, January 28, 1862

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CAIRO, January 28 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. HENRY W. HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo.: Commanding General Grant and myself are of opinion that ...

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, January 28, 1862

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CAIRO, January 28 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK. Saint Louis Mo.: With permission, I will take Fort Henry, on the Tennessee, an...

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, January 29, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CAIRO,                        Cairo, January 29 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo.: In v...

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant, January 30, 1862

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SAINT Louis, January 30 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Cairo, Ill.: Make your preparations to take and hold Fort Henry. I will se...

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant, January 30, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, January 30 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Cairo, Ill.: SIR: You ...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Report of Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote, U. S. Navy, February 7, 1862

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CAIRo , ILL., February 7, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to report that on the 6th instant, at 12:30 p.m., I made an attack on Fort Henry,...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote to Gideon Welles, February 6, 1862

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U. S. Flag Steamer “Cincinnati,”                            Off Fort Henry, Tennnesee River,               February 6th, 1862. sir : ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Details of the Bombardment and Capture of Fort Henry. Incidents, &c., February 10, 1862

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The Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial’s Cairo correspondence give the following account of the bombardment and capture of Fort Henry: ...