we stade at the same
plase untell sun down And then our Regiment had to go on picket And we marched
down in about a mile of the Yankees and sent out our detail
SOURCE: Bartlett
Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 23
we stade at the same
plase untell sun down And then our Regiment had to go on picket And we marched
down in about a mile of the Yankees and sent out our detail
SOURCE: Bartlett
Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 23
we was on picket at
the same plase
SOURCE: Bartlett
Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 23
we was releaved
about twelve oclock And then we marched back about a mile in the woods
SOURCE: Bartlett
Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 23
marched about four
miles toward Ashland And when we stopt it was dark And then our company had to
go about 5½ miles futher to stand picket and it was 12 oclock in the knight
when we got to the plase whar we we was to stand
SOURCE: Bartlett
Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 23
last day of 1862 was
cool and cloudy and our Regiment had muster inspection in the day and at nite
our Company had to go on picket gard down the bank of the Rapahanok River whar
we was in about a hundred yards of the Yankees pickets they was on one side of
the river and we was on the other we was in talken distence but our officer
would not alow ous to talk they would cum down on the bank and hollow to ous
and say if we would bring the boat over that they would come over on our side
and have a talk. So that was the last of our works for the year 1862.
BARTLETT Y. MALONE Co. H. 6th N. C. Regiment
SOURCE: Bartlett
Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 27
Day cool. A. M.
making Inspection reports. P. M. rec my commission as 2d Lt of co G. aggregate
too low to muster. The Negro Brigade from Ft Smith is doing most of the Picket
duty
SOURCE: “Diary of
John S. Morgan, Company G, Thirty-Third Iowa Infantry,” Annals of Iowa,
Vol. XIII, No. 8, Third Series, Des Moines, April 1923, p. 573
Started from camp at
Potomac Creek at six A.M., marched to the Rappahannock, and went into position
at United States Ford. The rebel earthworks could be plainly seen, on the
opposite banks of the river. The weather was pleasant. Marched fourteen miles.
Remained on picket at United States Ford until June 4.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second
Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light
Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 275
We packed up twice
to change our camp today, but the order was countermanded each time. The
arsenal is a very extensive building and the rebels turned out one hundred
small arms per day. We are preparing it for an extensive hospital. Quartered
here again tonight. I went up to the depot and while there met old Captain
Backman, of Co. C, 12th Ind. Reg. He is now sutler in the same regiment, which
is located but a few miles below here doing picket duty on the railroad.
SOURCE: Seth James
Wells, The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells,
Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After the Surrender, p. 18
On picket guard
today. Got my boots half soled. Gen. McPherson passed through here, and Logan's
division is coming up and passing through. Our old brigade (Col. Stevenson's)
also passed. A train came in a little after dark and was loaded with cotton.
The country is stripped of everything and so we are on half rations. All the
hogs and live stock have been killed. The Negroes are suffering and I think
they would welcome their old masters. There are a great many leaving, a large
carload left today. We have poorer fare than at any time since we enlisted.
SOURCE: Seth James
Wells, The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells,
Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After the Surrender, p. 21
The name of our camp
is properly Elk Water, not Elk Fork. The little stream which comes down to the
river, from which the camp derives its name, is called Elk Water, because
tradition affirms that in early days the elk frequented the little valley
through which it runs.
The fog has been
going up from the mountains, and the rain coming down in the valley. The river
roars a little louder than usual, and its water is a little less clear.
The party sent in
pursuit of the bushwhacker has returned. Found no one.
Two men were seen
this evening, armed with rifles, prowling among the bushes near the place where
the affair of last night occurred. They were fired upon, but escaped.
An accident, which
particularly interests my old company, occurred a few minutes ago. John
Heskett, Jeff Long, and four or five other men, were detailed from Company I
for picket duty. Heskett and Long are intimate friends, and were playing
together, the one with a knife and the other with a pocket pistol. The pistol was
discharged accidentally, and the ball struck Heskett in the neck, inflicting a
serious wound, but whether fatal or not the surgeon can not yet tell. The
affair has cast a shadow over the company. Young Heskett bears himself bravely.
Long is inconsolable, and begs the boys to shoot him.
SOURCE: John
Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 57-8
Company on picket. All gamblers and pirutes put on roots. I came under the latter head.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 9
Still on picket.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 9
During the past
month the right section done picket duty once on the Potomac.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery,
p. 31
We (centre section)
were relieved from picket duty by the right section, Lieutenant J. G. Hassard.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery,
p. 32
Weather warm. I was
on fatigue nearly all day, cutting and hauling wood for the company. We had
dress parade at 4 o'clock. Just at dusk the news came in that a guerilla band
was to attack us before morning. Fifty men from our regiment and forty-eight
from the 126th (which is here doing picket duty) were detailed to build
breastworks of cotton, four hundred bales of which lay near the depot. Col.
Norton and Major Bates did the engineering. After they had finished we lay
on our arms during the night, but no enemy made its appearance, and about 7
o'clock we were ordered back to camp.
SOURCE: Seth James
Wells, The Siege of Vicksburg: From the Diary of Seth J. Wells,
Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After the Surrender, p.
15-6
Left Camp College
Hill, or was rallied and sent to Gallatin, Summer county, Tenn, and slept on
our arms all night, and the next morning our company was sent out to ascertain
where company K, of the 79th Pa. Inf was, as they were put on out-post picket
in the night and could not be found in the morning. We found them on the Gallatin
road, one mile from town; in the mean time orders came to right-about and march
to camp again. On arriving there, orders had come to the regiment to
right-about and march to College Hill again, leaving Co. D behind. So we lay
over until the next day, and a train of cars came for us and we returned again
to camp, making a march of 23 miles.
SOURCE: Adam S.
Johnston, The Soldier Boy's Diary Book, p. 18
Our camp equipage came up to-day, so that we are now in our own tents.
Four of my companies are on picket, scattered up the valley for miles, and half of the other two are doing guard duty in the neighborhood of the camp. I do not, by any means, approve of throwing out such heavy pickets and scattering our men so much. We are in the presence of a force probably twice as large as our own, and should keep our troops well in hand.
Our scouts have been busy; but, although they have brought in a few prisoners, mostly farmers residing in the vicinity of the enemy's camp, we have obtained but little information respecting the rebels. I intend to send out a scouting party in the morning. Lieutenant Driscoll will command it. He is a brave, and, I think, prudent officer, and will leave camp at four o'clock, follow the road six miles, then take to the mountains, and endeavor to reach a point where he can overlook the enemy and estimate his strength.
SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 45-6
Battery in camp near
Poolesville; we, the centre section, on picket at Conrad's Ferry. Our picket
duty, at this place, has been a very pleasant one, being very light, except the
guard duty. Firing of videttes was very frequent during the night. But never did
either party disturb the other with artillery practice during our stay.
Sometimes signal rockets were sent up on the Maryland side, by rebel
sympathizers, which were generally answered from the Virginia shore. General
Stone had strong block-houses, of solid oak-timber, built on the line from
Muddy Branch to Conrad's Ferry, for the defence of the Maryland side, large
enough to hold three hundred men each. May it be remembered, pigs had to suffer
in our neighborhood. The weather, having been pleasant for weeks, became very
wintry after the first of January.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 30-1
The centre section
was relieved from picket at Conrad's Ferry, by the left section, under Lieut.
Newton. The guns of the former remained there to be taken by the left section.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 31
On picket one mile
southeast of LaGrange, the night was very cold.
SOURCE: Seth James
Wells, The Siege of Vicksburg: From the
Diary of Seth J. Wells, Including Weeks of Preparation and of Occupation After
the Surrender, p. 13