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Showing posts with label Fort Henry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Henry. Show all posts
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Diary of Edward Bates, Monday, February 24, 1862

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Late last night, Mr. Newton 4 came in to tell me that the Prest had just reed, a telegram to the effect that Columbus was evacuated. 5 Thi...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, Friday, February 7, 1862

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News rc d  today of the capture of Fort Henry on the Tennessee River by Comodore Foot and his Gun Boat Squadron. The news created quite a Se...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Brigadier-General John A. McClernand et al to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, March 9, 1862

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[hd. qrs., 1st Div., Pine Landing, Tenn.] [March 9, 1862.] We have heard with deep regret of your having been deposed from your authority ...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Diary of Private Theodore Reichardt, Friday, February 7, 1862

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Received the news of the surrender of Fort Henry. SOURCE: Theodore Reichardt,  Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artil...
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...