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Showing posts with label Milliken's Bend LA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milliken's Bend LA. Show all posts
Monday, January 26, 2026

Diary of Major Joseph Stockton, May 9, 1863

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Received orders to move tomorrow. Our camp life at Smith's Plantation has been as pleasant as we could wish. Our time was spent in batal...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan, Friday, February 17, 1865

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Boat landed at 12. O clock last night at Scippers landing to unload freight was up saw several hundred bales of cotton guarded by a gunboat....
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Diary of Major Joseph Stockton, April 12, 1863

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Started again down the Mississippi, our destination being Milliken's Bend. SOURCE: Joseph Stockton,  War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brig...

Diary of Major Joseph Stockton, April 14, 1863

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Arrived at Lake Providence and left for Milliken's Bend. River still very high. SOURCE: Joseph Stockton,  War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet...

Diary of Major Joseph Stockton, April 15, 1863

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Landed at Milliken's Bend. General Grant's army is here encamped under the immediate command of General Grant, and under him command...

Diary of Major Joseph Stockton, April 23, 1863

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Left Milliken's Bend and had one of the hardest marches on account of heat we have ever had. The distance was only twelve miles, yet it ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant too Brigadier-General Elias S. Dennis, June 11, 1863

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NEAR VICKSBURG, MISS., June 11, 1863. Brig. Gen. E. S. DENNIS           Commanding District of Northeastern Louisiana: In view of present d...

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant too Brigadier-General Elias S. Dennis, June 15, 1863

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NEAR VICKSBURG, Miss., June 15, 1863. Brig. Gen. E. S. DENNIS, Comdg. Dist. Northeast Louisiana: My letter to you was not intended as an ...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Major-General John A. McClernand to Edwin M. Stanton, September 5, 1863

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SPRINGFIELD, ILL., September 5, 1863. Hon. E. M. STANTON,           Secretary of War: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your...

Major-General John A. McClernand to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, June 27 1863

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SPRINGFIELD, ILL., June 27, 1863. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,          General-in-Chief: GENERAL: On the 4th instant I personally delivered ...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Frederick Douglass to Major George L. Stearns, August 1, 1863

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RochESTER , August 1st, 1863. MAJOR GEORGE L. STEARNS: My Dear Sir, Having declined to attend the meeting to promote enlistments, app...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 23, 1863

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From the army on the Potomac we have a dispatch from Lee, saying there have been several cavalry engagements during the last week, wherein ...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 22, 1863

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To-day I saw the memorandum of Mr. Ould, of the conversation held with Mr. Vallandigham, for file in the archives. He says if we can only h...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, January 20, 1863

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Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, Steamer “Sunny South,” January 20, 1863. My table is covered w...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, April 22, 1863

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We landed at Milliken's Bend early this morning and went into camp on a large plantation about a mile from the levee of the river. ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, April 21, 1863

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We struck our tents and at 3 o'clock in a heavy rain embarked on board the “Platte Valley.” We had all the supplies loaded by dark and ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, May 2, 1863

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MILLIKEN'S BEND, May 2, 1863. As I wrote you on Wednesday , I went up Yazoo with two ironclad boats, four or five mosquitoes, or sm...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, March 13, 1863

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CAMP BEFORE VICKSBURG, March 13, 1863. . . . The waters are still rising and Kilby Smith's Brigade is roosting on the levee with ...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

In The Review Queue: Greyhound Commander

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Greyhound Commander: Confederate General John G. Walker's History of the Civil War West of the Mississippi Edited By Richard L...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Major General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, January 4, 1863

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ON BOARD Forest Queen, MILLIKEN'S BEND, January 4, 1863. Well, we have been to Vicksburg and it was too much for us, and we have ...