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Showing posts with label Parrot Guns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parrot Guns. Show all posts
Friday, October 18, 2019

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Brigadier-General George W. Cullum, February 15, 1862

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Head Quarters, Army in the Field Camp Near Fort Donelson, Feb.y 15th 1862 GEN. G. W. CULLUM CHIIEF OF STAFF, DEPT. OF THE MO. CAIRO...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 23, 1863

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Dispatches from Charleston, yesterday, brought the melancholy intelligence that Fort Sumter is but little more than a pile of rubbish. The ...
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, March 29, 1863

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Last night Lieutenant Austin came into camp with thirty-three men and two guns; a ten-pound Parrott and a three-inch Rebel gun captured by ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Abraham Lincoln to Major-General George B. McClellan, May 1, 1862

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EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, May 1 , 1862 . Major-General McCLELLAN: Your call for Parrott guns from Washington alarms me, chiefl...

Major-General George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Camp Winfield Scott, May 1 , 1862 — 9 . 30 p.m. His Excellency the PRESIDENT, Washington, D.C.: ...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Diary of John Hay: February 2, 1864

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The enemy's fire was getting pretty warm. They had the range perfectly; most of the shell burst in or over the works; but the men were ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Tuesday, April 4, 1865

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Mail was to leave the camp at 12 today; sat down to write a letter before I was ½ through was detailed to take charge of a squad of 30 men ...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Tuesday, March 28, 1865

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Working parties return at daylight at which time the ball opens again The Enemy were reinforcing last night from Mobile, a little bolder ...

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Friday, March 31, 1865

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Rested tolerably last night, At 8. A M. The batteries open on the Forts & keep up a vigorous shelling for 3 hours. P. M. the felled tim...