On the above day and date commenced one of the great battles of the "War Between the States," generally known as the "Battle ...

Two gun-boats and three transports came up and landed some troops at Eastport and Chickasaw, after firing a few shots at the former place. T...

I and five others were on picket on the bank of the Tennessee at Chickasaw. About nine o'clock A. M. another gun-boat paid us a visit. S...

The battalion moved to a nice camping place in an old field, one mile west of luka, where it remained about eleven days. SOURCE: Richard R...

McNairy's Battalion drew five months' pay, from the 1st of August to December 31st, 1861. Each private drew twenty-four dollars per ...

Carroll's Brigade moved out by rail for Corinth. Five of Allison's Company who had been home rejoined their company. SOURCE: Richa...

Statham's Brigade (except McNairy's Battalion*) with their baggage left by rail for Corinth, Mississippi. The wagons belonging to ...

We found the Tennessee Valley to be a better farming country than some we had passed through. The road was also better. After a ride of twen...

The battalion moved on through and camped about seven miles beyond Tuscumbia. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock,  Hancock's Diary: Or, A Hist...

After a ride of about thirty miles, crossing Big Bear Creek, the battalion went into camps near Iuka, in Tishamingo County, Mississippi, wit...

A little after dark seventy-five of the battalion went out to guard the railroad bridge which crossed Bear Creek about seven miles east of I...

Bear Creek empties into the Tennessee River eight miles north-east of Iuka. Chickasaw was a little village above, or on the east of Bear Cre...

I and two others being on picket within five miles of Chickasaw, and hearing the firing of artillery a little below, mounted our horses and ...

Passing on through Shelbyville, crossing Duck River, we went into camps on its bank in sight of town, in Bedford County, twenty-five miles f...

Johnston dispatched thus to the Secretary of War from Shelbyville: My army will move beyond this to-day on the road to Decatur. One brigad...

Passing on through Fayetteville, crossing Elk River, we went into camps on its bank half a mile from town, in Lincoln County. Had another ni...

After a march of about seven miles in the direction of Athens, Alabama, we camped for the night in a barren, swampy country, in Lincoln Coun...

After a march of eleven miles through a broken country, we camped in an oak grove, still in Lincoln County, Tennessee. SOURCE: Richard R. ...

We marched through a section of country the principal growth of which was post-oak. There were so many quicksand bogs that it was difficult ...

Passing on through Athens, we went into camps about two miles beyond. Distance from Fayetteville, Tennessee, to Athens, Alabama, thirty-eigh...