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Showing posts with label Lumpkin's Mill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lumpkin's Mill. Show all posts
Friday, September 4, 2026

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Wednesday, December 24, 1862

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Lumpkin's Mill.   A day of fasting to Quinby's Division, the rations having run out yesterday and none having arrived. I ate parched...

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Thursday, December 25, 1862

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Lumpkin's Mill.   Christmas! Christmas! resounded through the camp this morning; everyone turning the gay reminiscence of the past in th...
Monday, May 18, 2026

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Monday, December 1, 1862

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Lumpkin's Mill. Awoke to find it a muddy morning, it having rained very hard in the night, blowing the fifth tent to the ground. Our ten...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Sunday, November 30, 1862

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Lumpkin's Mill, Miss. This was a dark and sultry morning, and about 8 A. M. while sitting upon the ground, I felt the earth shake a kind...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 24, 1862

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Marched to Lumpkins Mills; weather very warm. Christmas eve I retired to my bed on the bare ground completely worn out with the day's ma...

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 25, 1862

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LUMPKINS MILLS, MISS. Passed the day in camp as Ross's division were passing on their way to Holly Springs. Weather beautiful. It made...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 2, 1862

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Left camp at Lumpkins Mills at six o'clock this morning, the 72d in the advance. General Grant passed us while we were at a halt. I was ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: October 21, 1863

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Iuka, Miss., October 21, 1863. We reached here the evening of the 18th inst., and I have been on extra heavy fatigue nearly ever since ...