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Showing posts with label Knoxville TN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knoxville TN. Show all posts
Friday, October 25, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 23, 1865

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Clear, with high wind. Nothing further from North Carolina. A dispatch from Gen. Lee states that he has directed Gen. Cobb to organize an ex...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Brigadier-General George H. Thomas to Brigadier-General Don Carlos Buell, December 30, 1861

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HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,           Lebanon, Ky., December 30, 1861. Brig. Gen. D. C. BUELL,           Commanding Depa...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: March 26, 1864

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This morning a squad of twenty men, under the command of Lieutenant Fergus, is sent out on a scout to Eastport, Tennessee river, and another...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Major-General George B. Crittenden to Judah P. Benjamin, December 13, 1861

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RICHMOND, December 13, 1861. Hon. J. P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War: SIR: I arrived at, Knoxville about the 1st day of December,...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Brigadier-General William H. Carroll to Judah P. Benjamin, November 26, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS, Knoxville, November 26 , 1861 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to report that I arri...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer to Lieutenant-Colonel William W. Mackall, November 20, 1861

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BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Wartburg, one mile from Montgomery, November 20, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL,           Assistant Adju...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Lieutenant-Colonel William W. Mackall to Brigadier-General Leroy P. Walker, October 22, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT, Bowling Green, Ky., October , 22, 1861. Brig. Ge n. L. P. WALKER, Huntsville, Ala.: GENERAL: By General J...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Official Reports: Action at Rockcastle Hills, or Camp Wildcat, Ky.. October 21, 1861. No. 5. — Reports of Brigadier-General F. K. Zollicoffer, C. S. Army, including operations October 16-26, with correspondence.

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No. 5. Reports of Brigadier-General F. K. Zollicoffer, C. S. Army, including operations October 16-26, with correspondence. CAMP NEAR ROCKCA...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer to Colonel John P. Murray, October 16, 1861

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BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Camp Ten Mile, Ky., October 16, 1861. Colonel MURRAY, Camp Myers: SIR: I am 10 miles on the march toward a ...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Sunday, September 15, 1861

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The battalion* passed on through Knoxville and encamped about one mile and a half east of town, at Camp Cummings. _______________ * As J. J....

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Friday, September 20, 1861

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Being ordered to move his battalion to Cumberland Ford, Colonel McNairy set out from Camp Cummings, near Knoxville, about six P. M., with Ha...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Thursday, August 15, 1861

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Seventy-five of our battalions set out from Camp Schuyler to go to Knoxville, about forty miles east, with some prisoners. They returned the...

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Monday, September 9, 1861

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J.   L. Thomas and I set out from Mr. Lathan's to hunt our command. After a ride of about twenty-four miles, we found our Company at Mon...

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Saturday, September 14, 1861

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 In the saddle early, we again took up the line of march eastward. Passing through Wartburg, we soon arrived at Camp Schuyler, where we foun...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: December 10, 1863

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NEWPORT NEWS. I am now on the sacred soil of old Virginia, and my first care will be to seek an introduction to some of the F. F. V's....
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 28, 1864

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Bright, cool, and dusty. No war news; nor denial or confirmation of the wonderful victory of Forrest in Mississippi. That he captured the en...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Brigadier-General James Edward Raines

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Brigadier-General James Edward Rains, one of the many civilians who rose to high military command during the great war between the States, ...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 4, 1863

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The only thing new to-day is a dispatch from Gen. Longstreet, before Knoxville, stating that he had been repulsed in an assault upon the pl...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Judah P. Benjamin to General Albert Sidney Johnston, February 8, 1862

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WAR DEPARTMENT,           Richmond, February 8 , 1862 . General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Bowling Green: SIR: The condition of your dep...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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...