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Showing posts with label Hurlbut. Show all posts
Thursday, February 4, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Wednesday, May 14, 1862

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At our new camping ground we find water very scarce, and of a very inferior quality. To-day we have battalion drill; the regiment receives h...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Major-General Stephen Hurlbut: General Orders No. 112, October 8, 1862

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GENERAL ORDERS No. 112. HDQRS. 4TH DIV., DIST. OF WEST TENN.,         Bolivar, Tenn., October 8 , 1862 . Officers and soldiers o...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

Major-General William T. Sherman to Lieutenant Governor Benjamin Stanton, June 10, 1862

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CAMP IN THE FIELD, NEAR CHEWALLA, TENN.,       June 10, 1862. Lieutenant-Governor B. Stanton, Columbus Ohio; SIR:   I am not sur...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: December 8, 1863

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Mud Creek Cove, Jackson County, Ala. December 8, 1863. I was at Stevenson yesterday and put a letter in the office for you, but with ...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: June 19, 1863

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Lagrange, Tenn., June 19, 1863. The general and Sam went to Memphis yesterday to visit General Hurlbut, and the major and I have charge...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Stephen A. Hurlbut, September 15, 1863 – 5 p.m.

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WASHINGTON CITY, September 15 , [ 1863 ] — 5 p.m.       (Received 4 p.m., 18 th.) Maj. Gen. STEPHEN A. HURLBUT, Memphis: All t...

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Major-General William T. Sherman, September 22, 1863

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VICKSBURG,             September 22 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Commanding Fifteenth Army Corps: GENERAL: The followin...

Brigadier-General John A. Garfield to Salmon P. Chase, September 23, 1863 – 10:30 a.m.

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,              September 23 , 1863 — 10 . 30 a.m.       (Received War Department 10 p.m.) ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 7, 1863

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Camp 103d Illinois Infantry, Lagrange, Tenn., May 7, 1863. Isn't the Grierson "raid" glorious? Two other expeditions st...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 15, 1862

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Camp at Lagrange, Tenn., November 15, 1862. We're having more of a rest here than we anticipated when we arrived. Suppose that the ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, March 2, 1864

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Orders were issued this morning for the army not to destroy any more property while on the march. We just learned that while we were in Can...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Friday, February 5, 1864

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We left our bivouac this morning at 8 o'clock and moved forward about fifteen miles. General Liggett's Division was assigned the ad...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, April 29, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTH ALABAMA, Fort Gaines , April 29, 1865. My Dear Wife : Your very interesting and affectionate letter ...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, August 20, 1862

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CAMP NEAR MEMPHIS, Aug. 20, 1862. MY DEAR MOTHER: Our army here is now being thoroughly disciplined. Parades and reviews are of dail...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith, August 14, 1862

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CAMP NEAR MEMPHIS, Aug. 14, 1862. Your letter of the 8th inst. was received two days ago, and just while I was preparing to act as Chie...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, May 31, 1863

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IN REAR OF VICKSBURG, MISS. , May 31 , 1863 . (Received June 3 – 4 p.m.)   Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Dept. of the Gulf: GENER...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Orville Hickman Browning, September 22, 1861

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Executive Mansion, Washington, Sep. 22. 1861 Hon. O. H. Browning. My dear Sir: Yours of the 17th is just received; and, coming ...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Major General Henry W. Halleck's Special Field Orders, No. 35

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SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS No. 35. HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 30 , 1862 . I. Major-General Thomas...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Major General Henry Halleck to Major General William T. Sherman, July 16, 1862

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CORINTH, July 16 , 1862 . Major-General SHERMAN,   Moscow : You will soon receive orders from General Grant to march yours and Hur...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, January 28, 1864

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ON BOARD GUN-BOAT JULIET, MOUTH OF WHITE RIVER, January 28, 1864. . . . I sent you a paper about the banquet 2 which was really a fi...