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Showing posts with label Parole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parole. Show all posts
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 1, 1865

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Cloudy, cold, and dismal. We have no news except from the North, whence we learn Lieut. Beall, one of our Canada raiders, has been hung; tha...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 3, 1865

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Raining and cold. This morning there was another arrival of our prisoners on parol, and not yet exchanged. Many thousands have arrived this ...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 11, 1865

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Bright and frosty. From a published correspondence between Gens. Hampton and Sherman, on the subject of retaliatory executions, it is mentio...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: October 1864

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We have got the smallpox in prison, and from six to twelve are taken out dead daily. We can buy from prisoners rats, 25 cents each, killed a...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 21, 1864

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I heard to-day that my brother Morris was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Pa. I asked for a parole to-day to go and see my parents in New York,...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, January 3, 1866

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General James Watson Webb called on me. He has been laid up by the gout at his son-in-law's, Major Benton's, house. He came home fro...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Official Reports of the Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, November 14, 1864-January 23, 1865: No. 225. — Report of Lieut. H. Milo Torrence, One hundred and fifteenth Ohio Infantry, Assistant Inspector Railroad Defenses, of operations December 4-17, 1864.

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No. 225. Report of Lieut. H. Milo Torrence, One hundred and fifteenth Ohio Infantry, Assistant Inspector Railroad Defenses, of operations De...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Rear Admiral David D. Porter, July 3, 1863

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[JULY 3, 1863.] Admiral PORTER: I have given the rebels a few hours to consider the proposition of surrendering; all to be paroled here, th...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks, July 4, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Department of the Gulf: G...

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, July 6, 1863

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VICKSBURG, July 6, 1863. DEAR FATHER, — Vicksburg has at last surrendered after a siege of over forty days. The surrender took place on th...

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General James B. McPherson, July 8, 1863

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HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENN., Vicksburg, Miss., July 8 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There a...

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General James B. McPherson, July 8, 1863

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VICKSBURG, MISS., July 8, 1863. Maj. Gen. J. B. MCPHERSON, Comdg. Seventeenth Army Corps: GENERAL: There apparently being some misunderst...

Major-General Henry Halleck to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 8, 1863—6:45 p.m.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington, July 8, 1863—6.45 p.m. Major-General GRANT, Vicksburg, Miss.: I fear your paroling the garrison at V...

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 10, 1863—10:30 a.m.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington, July 10, 1863—10 a.m. Major-General GRANT, Vicksburg, Miss.: On a full examination of the question, ...

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General William T. Sherman, July 11, 1863

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VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863.           Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Expedition: DEAR GENERAL: Dispatches just received from Gen...
Friday, January 14, 2022

Major-General Edward O. C. Ord to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 1, 1863

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[July 1, 1863.] One of the men who gave himself up is confined here here   is about three miles from here his wife is sick expected to di...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Release of Rebel Prisoners

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The Secretary of War has, it is stated issued an order stopping the release or parole of prisoners taken at Fort Donelson.   It is known tha...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, October 27, 1862

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(Private) New Orleans, October 27th, 1862. Dear Sir : Gen. Weitzel left here three days ago, with five Regiments Infantry, four compa...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: November 4, 1864

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The fine weather still continues. Just warm enough, and favorable for prisoners. Food now we get but once a day — not all we want, but thre...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 24, 1864

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Did not write yesterday. Jumping right along toward health if not wealth. discarded crutches and have now two canes. Get around considerabl...