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Showing posts with label Geese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geese. Show all posts
Friday, September 4, 2026

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Friday, December 26, 1862

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Tallaloosa, Miss.   Aroused early to prepare to march. High wind, appearance of a storm. We were hitched up with the rest of the Battery by ...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Wednesday, December 10, 1862

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Oxford. Warm and pleasant. Health improving. Diarrhea checked by abstaining from all eatables except hard crackers. All teams sent foraging....
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Diary of Corporal Lawrence Van Alstyne: December 16, 1862

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The U. S. surgeon from the Marine Hospital has been on board looking us over. Found only four diseases, measles, scurvy, typhoid fever and j...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, January 20, 1863

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The troops still continue foraging, and in consequence the country has well nigh become impoverished, almost everything in the line of subsi...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, December 22, 1862

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This morning General Dodge discovers that the enemy has evaded him by withdrawing hastily from Jackson and his advance. The command being ne...

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, December 30, 1862

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This morning Companies H and I, under the command of Captain Johnson, are sent on a foraging expedition, taking with them the Division train...

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, January 10, 1863

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To-day some of the Seventh boys return from a foraging expedition in West Tennessee, bringing in some hogs, sheep, chickens and geese, makin...