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Showing posts with label Oxford MS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oxford MS. Show all posts
Monday, May 18, 2026

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Saturday, December 6, 1862

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Oxford, Miss. Awoke with an unpleasant feeling, a racking pain in back and head. Started out early, the road having frozen hard enough to be...

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Sunday, December 7, 1862

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Oxford. Nothing new. Laid in camp. Many rumors afloat of Richmond taken, Bragg defeated, etc. Health improving. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones...

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Monday, December 8, 1862

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Oxford. A lazy day for the Battery. Nothing transpired to excite the drowsiness of the soldier. Received a paper of the 3rd containing the P...

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Tuesday, December 9, 1862

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Oxford. Warm and pleasant. Quinby's Division inspected by U. S. Grant and suite. Troubled with diarrhea. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  ...

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Wednesday, December 10, 1862

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Oxford. Warm and pleasant. Health improving. Diarrhea checked by abstaining from all eatables except hard crackers. All teams sent foraging....

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Thursday, December 11, 1862

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Oxford. Rumors of march. Logan's Division left to-day. Troops passing in the afternoon. Had standing gun drill. Ordered to have five rol...

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Friday, December 12, 1862

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Near Oxford. Orders given at roll call in the morning to be ready to march at 7 A. M. 3 days' rations. Took up the line of march back to...

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Saturday, December 13, 1862

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Near Oxford. All quiet. Foraging party started out at 6 A. M. Gone all day. They report a poor country, with much more loyalty apparently th...

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Sunday, December 14, 1862

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Near Oxford. A day of excitement which came near ending in a serious affair, caused by certain members of the 1st Missouri Regular Battery a...

Diary of Private Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Monday, December 15, 1862

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Near Oxford. It rained nearly all day, making it very muddy, hard for our horses. No mail for two days. SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd Jones,  An Ar...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 21, 1862

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Broke camp today. Left for Oxford on our retreat to where, I don't know, as the rebel General Van Dorn, through the treachery of Colonel...

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 ...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Diary of Captain Joseph Stockton, December 5, 1862

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Left camp at 6 o'clock. Roads in a terrible condition, mud knee deep, marching almost impossible; artillery stuck in the road, wagons in...
Monday, May 2, 2022

Major-General Dabney H. Maury to James A. Seddon, August 11, 1864

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MOBILE, August 11, 1864. Hon. J. A. SEDDON,     Secretary of War: Raid preparing at Pensacola Navy-Yard; quiet elsewhere. Nothing late from...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, December 18, 1862

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We started at 6 o’clock this morning and arrived in Oxford at about 10. We were inspected by General Grant, passing through the town by pla...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, December 17, 1862

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We struck our tents this morning and at 10 o'clock started toward Oxford. We went into bivouac for the night within four miles of the t...