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Showing posts with label Port Gibson. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 2, 1863

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As the sun peeped over the eastern horizon, we slipped out of camp and went our way rejoicing. Oh, how beautiful the morning; calm and plea...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 1, 1863

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Logan's Division, to which we belonged, embarked on transports, that had passed the batteries at Vicksburg and Grand Gulf, last nig...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 9, 1863

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Troops were arriving all night and to-day (Hood's division), and are proceeding Southward, per railroad, it is said for Tennessee, via ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, April 9, 1864

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Culpepper C. H., Va. , April 9, 1864. . . . Rain. The ride of yesterday was too much for me and has excited my cough. Read the Serm...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, May 24, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, Near Vicksburg, Miss., May 24 , 1863 . Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General in-Chief, Washingto...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

President Abraham Lincoln to Major General Ulysses S. Grant, July 13, 1863

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Executive Mansion, Washington, July 13, 1863. Major General Grant My Dear General I do not remember that you and I ever met p...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Twenty-Second Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

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The Twenty-second Regiment of Iowa Infantry Volunteers was composed of ten companies, seven of which were organized in Johnson County, and o...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Twenty-first Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

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The official reports of the Adjutant General of Iowa show that Company A, of the Twenty-first Regiment of Infantry, was ordered into quarter...