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Showing posts with label Provost Guard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Provost Guard. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Diary of Private John J. Wyeth, October 27, 1862

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We worried through the dismal, wet night, and morning found us hungry again, so we scattered. Our breakfasts were picked up here and there, ...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Diary of Private Louis Leon: June 25-30, 1863

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 Marched on, passed through Leesburg, Canada, Hockinsville, and Centerville, all small villages. We got to Carlisle, Pa., at sundown. Marche...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 15, 1862

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The boys came out this morning, looking a little the worse for wear, lame, sore and stiff; but with a good bumper of whiskey to lubricate t...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Official Reports of the Action at and Surrender of Murfreesborough, Tenn., July 13, 1862: No. 10. — Report of Colonel John F. Miller, Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, commanding at Nashville

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No. 10. Report of Col. John F. Miller, Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, commanding at Nashville NASHVILLE, July 19 , 1862 — 12 p.m....
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: December 8, 1862

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Provost Marshal's Office, 4th Division, Army of the Tennessee, near Tallahatchie, Miss., December 8, 1862. Still we tarry by th...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: September 28, 1864

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A provost guard of our regiment is on duty in town to preserve the peace and protect the business interest, which is improving. Service is ...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, June 24, 1865

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Weather pleasant. The Fifteenth Iowa received their pay today. I received a pass, and in charge of four boys of the company spent the day i...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, June 4, 1865

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We had company inspection this morning. The weather is very hot and we all remained close to our “ranches” today. We could not go to the ci...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Thusday, May 25, 1865

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It rained nearly all day — at times very hard. We remained in camp all day and nothing of any importance occurred. Now that we are so near ...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, March 9, 1865

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It is still raining. The army started at 8 a. m. Companies C, D and E of the Eleventh Iowa were sent back to town on provost guard, to see ...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, June 13, 1864

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June 13, 1864 Last night, at dark, the whole army was in motion for "Charles City" on the James River (there is no "city...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, January 7, 1864

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Pleasant weather again after several days of cold. Our brigade now provides the provost guard for the city, which takes each regiment down ...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, November 28, 1863

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A detail of forty men from our regiment was sent into town on provost guard. Our orders were to arrest all citizens and soldiers found upon...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, September 27, 1863

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Headquarters Second Brigade, Second Div., Seventeenth Army Corps, Natchez, Miss ., Sept. 27, 1863. My Dear Wife: My reception a...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, September 13, 1863

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There was regimental inspection this morning with accouterments on and in full dress. Some of the companies have the appearance of a “corpo...