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Showing posts with label Gideon Pillow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gideon Pillow. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 16, 1865

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Cloudy; rained yesterday and last night. We have no important news from South Carolina, except the falling back toward Columbia of our tro...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 17, 1865

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Frosty morning, after a rain last night. We have no authentic war news this morning, from any quarter. Congress is at work in both Houses ...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Diary of Private Edward W. Crippin, September 5, 1861

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morning duties performed as usual Lt Allen Officer of the Guard to day. Weather pleasant but showery.—nothing of importance but drilling. Wa...
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...
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...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

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...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Leroy P. Walker to Major-General Leonidas Polk, September 4, 1861

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RICHMOND, September 4, 1861. General POLK, Memphis, Tenn.: News has reached here that General Pillow has landed his troops at Hickman, Ky....
Friday, September 25, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 1, 1864

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Hazy, misty weather. Gen. Lovell (who lost New Orleans) has applied for a command in the West, and Gen. Johnston approves it strongly. He d...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, March 30, 1862

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March about 4 miles; pass General Pillow's plantation and encamp on Captain Polk's plantation. The Tenth [Brigade] moves forward to...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Special Dispatch to the Republican, February 9, 1862

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FORT HENRY, February 9. Gen. GRANT has just returned, with his staff, from making an extensive reconnoissance.   He had with him Cols. ...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Mary Grant, February 9, 1862

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Fort Henry, Ten. Feb.y 9th, 1862 DEAR SISTER, I take my pen in hand “away down in Dixie” to let you know that I am still alive and ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Statement of Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest, March 15, 1862

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Statement of Col. N. B. Forrest. MARCH 15, 1862 . Between 1 and 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, February 16, being sent for, I arri...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 13, 1863

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A letter from Gen. J. E. Johnston, Atlanta —   whither he had repaired to attend a Court of Inquiry relating to Pemberton's operations,...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 27, 1863

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There is trouble in the Conscription Bureau. Col. Preston, the new superintendent, finds it no bed of roses, made for him by Lieut.-Col. La...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 19, 1861

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It is probable the landlord of the Gayoso House was a strong Secessionist, and resolved, therefore, to make the most out of a neutral custo...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 6, 1863

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It seems that it was a mistake about the enemy's monitors approaching the forts in Charleston harbor; but the government has dispatches...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 18, 1861

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On looking out of my cabin window this morning I found the steamer fast along-side a small wharf, above which rose, to the height of 150 fe...