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Showing posts with label Hindman. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 6, 1863

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Gen. Bragg and others recommend Gen. Hood for promotion to a lieutenant-generalcy; but the President says it is impossible, as the number a...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 4, 1863

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January 4, 1863. There I quit, for we received orders to get ready at once to march to Jackson, Tenn. The colonel ordered me to take ch...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 14, 1863

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We have nothing additional from Gen. Wise's expedition against Williamsburg; but it was deprecated by our people here, whose families a...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 6, 1863

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To-day we are all down again. Bragg has retreated from Murfreesborough. It is said he saved his prisoners, captured cannon, etc., but it is...
Monday, November 28, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 23, 1862

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The battle of Fredericksburg is still the topic, or the wonder, and it transpired more than nine days ago. It will have its page in history...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 19, 1862

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Hon. James A. Seddon (Va.) has been appointed Secretary of War. He is an able man (purely a civilian), and was member of our Revolutionary ...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 23, 1862

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Letters and papers to-day. It is reported that Hindman has captured Curtis and his whole command in Arkansas. Delightful, if true. The army...

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 28, 1862

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The report of Hindman's having captured Curtis untrue; but our army is doing well in the West. Murfreesboro', in Tennessee, has bee...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

Matters at Bowling Green & Conflict near at hand – Floyd and McCulloch at Bowling Green

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(From the Nashville Banner, Dec. 30) The Nashville Banner has an interesting letter from Bowling Green, dated the 30th ult., from which...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Bridges between Bowling Green and Nashville Destroyed – The Rebel Evacuation of Bowling Green in Hot Haste – Destruction and Pollution of Springs

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(Correspondence of the Louisville Democrat.) BOWLING GREEN, Feb. 18, 1862. A man reported here this evening who left Nashville last Friday...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Rebel Vandalism at Bowling Green

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From the Louisville Journal, 29 th . We have seen a gentleman who left Bowling Green since its occupation by the Federal troops, from whom ...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Movements of Troops in Kentucky

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We gather the following information from various sources, all of which we believe reliable and none of which we understand to be contraband:...
Monday, January 31, 2011

A soldier in the rebel army . . .

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. . .  writing home to a friend says: – “I well remember your enthusiastic shouts when the Manassas victory was won, but did you ever dream...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Latest News

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We have deferred to the latest moment making up our summary of news. The reader will find but few additional particulars from the battlefie...