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Showing posts with label Island No. 10. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Island No. 10. Show all posts
Friday, November 5, 2021

Major-General Stephen A. Hurlbut to Lieutenant-Colonel John A. Rawlins, June 10, 1863

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MEMPHIS, TENN., June 10, 1863. Lieut. Col. JOHN A. RAWLINS, Assistant Adjutant-General: COLONEL: I have received to-day one letter from Ca...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Don Carlos Buell, March 18, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI,        Saint Louis, March 16 , 1862 . Major-General BUELL, Nashville: Move your forces ...

Major-General Don Carlos Buell to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, March 15, 1862

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NASHVILLE, TENN., March 15 , 1862 . Major-General HALLECK: Your dispatch of yesterday received this morning. Undoubtedly we should...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Brigadier-General George W. Cullum, February, 25, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, Fort Donelson, February 25 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. G. W. CULLUM, Cairo, Ill.: I wrote you tha...
Monday, October 7, 2019

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General George B. McClellan, March 4, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, March 4 , 1862 . Major-General MCCLELLAN, Washington: A rumor has j...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: June 4, 1862

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June 4, 1862. No. 10. We've been living out here a week without any tents until to-night, and General Pope is ripping and swearing ...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: April 16, 1862

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On Steamer Henry Clay, off New Madrid, Mo., April 16, 1862. I finished my last in a great hurry, helped strike and load our tents and...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: April 10, 1862

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April 10.—The Rebels have run and left Island 10, and our boys have taken some 2,000 of them prisoners below here. They passed up on a boat...
Monday, June 26, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: April 7, 1862

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Headquarters 7th Illinois Cavalry, In a very fine House, Point Pleasant, Mo., April 7 , 1862. If this isn’t fine your brother is in...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: April 5, 1862

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April 5, 1862, — One of our boys has just returned from Madrid and says he saw our gunboat Cairo there. She slipped by the batteries at Isl...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: April 4, 1862

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Camp, near Point Pleasant, Mo., April 4, 1862. I received your last letter within three days after it was mailed, and praised Uncle Sam...
Friday, June 23, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: March 28, 1862

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Point Pleasant, Mo., March 28, 1862. There isn't a thing to write only that they keep up the infernal “boom, boom;” with their cann...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: March 18, 1862

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Near Point Pleasant, Mo ., March 18, '62. You see we are creeping along down the river surely if the motions are a little slow. Thi...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Tuesday, July 25, 1865

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Rain quite a shower A. M. at New Madrid 10:45 wood above pass Island No. 10, 1.45 P. M. Land at Cairo, at 9.30 P. M. fail to procure Transp...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: October 31, 1864

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Quite cool today. Lost all my blankets and overcoat yesterday. Passed Island No. 10, and arrived at Columbus, Ky., at 11 p.m. At Cairo chan...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, April 15, 1862

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Beaufort, S. C. April 15th, 1862. My dear Mother: Not wishing you to be exposed to disappointment, I must write a few brief lines by...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight: April 9, 1862

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camp Near Edinburg , April 9, 1862. Scene, camp, snowing and raining, and blowing angrily; Time, Tuesday morning. The Major Second Mass...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, April 15, 1862

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Still rain! — Read Bulwer's “Strange Story.” One idea I get: “We have an instinctive longing for a future existence”; ergo, there is a ...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, April 13, 1862

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Rain begins at guard-mounting. A year ago today Sumter was taken. Great events, great changes, since then. The South was eager, prepared, “...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, April 12, 1862

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Camp Hayes, Raleigh, Virginia. — Windy, cold, and cloudy — another storm impending. Cleared up towards noon. Had two good drills. A first-r...