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Showing posts with label Lloyd Tilghman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lloyd Tilghman. Show all posts
Monday, August 22, 2022

Brigadier-General Lloyd Tilghman to Lieutenant-Colonel William W. Mackall, October 29, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS CAMP, ALCORN,           Hopkinsville, Ky., October 29, 1861. Col. W. W. MACKALL,           Assistant Adjutant-General, &c....
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, February 8, 1862

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This morning we are still at the Fort. This place looks as though it had passed through a terrible storm. We will now take a stroll over the...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General George B. McClellan, February 7, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, February 7 , 1862 . Fort Henry was taken yesterday, with seventeen he...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Report of Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote, U. S. Navy, February 7, 1862

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CAIRo , ILL., February 7, 1862. SIR: I have the honor to report that on the 6th instant, at 12:30 p.m., I made an attack on Fort Henry,...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote to Gideon Welles, February 6, 1862

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U. S. Flag Steamer “Cincinnati,”                            Off Fort Henry, Tennnesee River,               February 6th, 1862. sir : ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Details of the Bombardment and Capture of Fort Henry. Incidents, &c., February 10, 1862

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The Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial’s Cairo correspondence give the following account of the bombardment and capture of Fort Henry: ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

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

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HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,   Bowling Green, Ky., February 8 , 1862 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War: SIR: No reliab...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Letter from G. W. B., February 8, 1862

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FORT HENRY, Tenn., Saturday Night, February 8, 1862 For all the purposes of navigation a “booming river” is most admirable, but when...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Brigadier-General Lloyd Tilghman to Captain E. D. Blake, December 2, 1861

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NASHVILLE, TENN. , December 2 , 1861 . Capt. E. D. BLAKE, Assistant Adjutant-General, First Div., West. Dept., Ky.: SIR: In obedie...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 21, 1862

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All our garrison in Fort Henry, with Gen. Tilghman, surrendered. I think we had only 1500 men there. Guns, ammunition, and stores, all gone...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 9, 1862

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., February 9, 1862. Is not the news from Tennessee glorious? l   It is very important in a strategical point of view...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

In Close Confinement

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BOSTON, March 11. – Information from Fort Warren states that Gens. Buckner and Tilghman were put in close confinement yesterday.   The cau...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Rumors in Nashville -- Rebel Credulity -- Brave Officers and Toadies

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Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette Nashville, Tenn., March 6. The sympathizers with treason in this vicinity are consoling t...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Up the Cumberland

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The voyage up the river from Ft. Donelson to this place yesterday afternoon was quite a pleasant one.   The river just now is boasting of ...
Friday, April 6, 2012

Gens. Buckner and Tilghman on their Travels

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CLEVELAND, Feb. 27. – Gens. Buckner and Tilghman passed here this morning en route for Fort Warren, under charge of Col. Coats. – Published...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Hot Work In Kentucky

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There is every appearance that the campaign in Kentucky has opened in full earnest, and the result cannot be long in doubt.  The first demon...
Monday, September 19, 2011

The first thing that . . .

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. . . met the Federal eye on entering the camp at Columbus was an effigy marked “Bill Seward, the Abolitionist.”   Not far distant was a sim...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

The War News

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MANASSAS OURS. Officers and Soldiers not to Return Slaves. Battle of Pea Ridge Arkansas. McCulloch and McIntosh mortally wounded. Our Bl...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Boston, March 11 [1862]

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Information from Fort Warren states that Gens. Buckner and Tilgham [sic] were but in close confinement yesterday.   The cause for this is no...
Monday, June 27, 2011

From the South

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BALTIMORE, March 5. A letter from Fort Monroe published in the American of this city, says that yesterday’s Richmond Dispatch announces th...