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Showing posts with label Memphis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memphis. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Diary of Private Seth J. Wells, January 2, 1863

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Struck out tents early this morning and marched to Colliersville, a distance of seven miles from Lafayette and twenty-four from Memphis. As ...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Diary of Adam Gurowski, September 1861

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WILL McClellan display unity in conception, and vigor in execution? That is the question. He seems very energetic and active in organizing t...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Diary of Major Joseph Stockton, March 2, 1863

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We struck tents yesterday morning and marched into Memphis, bivouacked on the wharf until dark and then embarked on board the steamer "...

Diary of Major Joseph Stockton, March 9, 1863

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On board transport "Platte Valley." We left Memphis on the 3rd as we supposed for Lake Providence, but when we got within twenty-f...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Diary of Edward Bates: April 21, 1859

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A bad, rainy day all day long. Yesterday afternoon, my young friend, Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart, 20 came out, with his wife and child and s...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, January 17, 1863

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Evacuated Fort Stockton today. Marched into Memphis through mud nearly knee deep. Slept in an old building near the railroad depot. Heard to...

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, January 18, 1863

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Went into quarters in the navy yard at Memphis. Quarters very good. Men under shelter. The machine shop is used as barracks for the regiment...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Diary of Musician David Lane, June 11, 1863

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We are fairly packed on board a small transport; so thickly are we crowded in, it is almost impossible to stir; yet all will stir. Every man...

Diary of Musician David Lane, June 14, 1863

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We are still in the harbor at Memphis awaiting orders. Eight hundred and fifty wounded men were brought to this place yesterday from Vicksbu...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 26, 1862

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Started on our march to Memphis. Quimby's [ sic ] division are to guard a train of 600 empty wagons. The day's march was a terrible ...

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 29, 1862

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Marched into Memphis, encamped in the southern part of the city near Fort Pickering—one of the meanest places we ever encamped in, no water ...
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, July 25, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 26, 1864

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Clear; but rained copiously last night. A letter from Gen. Lee indicates that the “Bureau of Conscription” fails to replenish the army. ...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Stephen A. Hurlbut, June 27, 1863

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HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENN., Near Vicksburg, June 27, 1863. Maj. Gen. STEPHEN A. HURLBUT,           Comdg. Sixteenth Army Corps: GENERAL: You...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Absalom H. Markland, June 29, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, June 29, 1863. A. H. MARKLAND, Special Agent, Post-Office Department: D...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to Captain Fitch, August 7, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   Memphis, August 7 , 1862 . Captain FITCH, Assistant Quartermaster, Memphis, Tenn.: ...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, January 29, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CAIRO,                        Cairo, January 29 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo.: In v...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Major-General George B. McClellan to Brigadier-General Don Carlos Buell, February 7, 1862 — 7:15 p.m.

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY, February 7 , 1862 — 7 . 15 p. m.   Brig. Gen. D. C. BUELL,   Louisville, Ky.: Why not take the line of the Tenn...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Major-General George B. McClellan to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, February 7, 1862 — 7:15 p.m.

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY, February 7 , 1862 — 7 . 15 p.m. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo.: Dispatch received. I congratulate y...
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...