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Showing posts with label Sleeping On Arms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sleeping On Arms. Show all posts
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Diary of Private Adam S. Johnston, August 12, 1862

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Left Nashville camp and moved four miles out of town to camp, and was rallied the same day and slept all night on our arms, with sixty round...

Diary of Private Adam S. Johnston, August 13, 1862

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Left camp again and slept all night on our arms in Nashville, and encamped or changed camp the same day on College Hill, 1½ miles out of tow...

Diary of Private Adam S. Johnston, August 16, 1862

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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 ...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Diary of Private Bartlett Yancey Malone: May 3, 1862

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we lade ther in the field all night with our guns by our side And next morning we marched out in the woods And we stade ther untell about 2 ...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, August 30, 1861

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It is now between two and three months since our regiment went into camp. We have had nearly three hundred cases of measles, with about as m...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 11, 1863

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Orders read out to-day from our father, R. E. Lee, that we would fight the enemy once more on their own soil, as they were now in our front....
Friday, August 19, 2022

Colonel Theophilus T. Garrard to Brigadier-General George H. Thomas, October 25, 1861

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CAMP WILDCAT, October 25 , 1861 . General GEORGE H. THOMAS: GENERAL: Your aid arrived in time to save us from a certain defeat (what othe...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 2, 1863

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Our regiment was sent on picket this morning at daylight-one mile from camp and two miles from the enemy. Companies B and G are on the left,...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Wednesday, May 14, 1862

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At our new camping ground we find water very scarce, and of a very inferior quality. To-day we have battalion drill; the regiment receives h...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 20, 1863

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Map of Vicksburg showing the river front and the positions of the Union and Confederate lines in the rear. When I awoke this morning I ...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 1, 1863

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This morning the ground is frozen hard. There was no battle yesterday, only heavy skirmishing. Both armies were drawn up in line of battle,...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: March 31, 1865

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Cleared up soon after sunrise, but did not remain so long. Very heavy firing. Musketry and artillery to the right of and beyond Dinwiddie C...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 3, 1863

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My son Custis stayed out all night, sleeping on his arms in the farthest intrenchments. A little beyond, there was a skirmish with the enem...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Captain Charles Wright Wills: December 23, 1862

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Provost Marshal's Office, Waterford, Miss., December 23, 1862. Suspect this will be my last from this country. Where the army is ...
Friday, May 12, 2017

3rd Sergeant Charles Wright Wills: 10 a.m., Sunday, November 24, 1861

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Bird's Point, Mo. , November 24, 1861. Sabbath morning, 10 o'clock. I'm in clover. I've got a great big “comfort,” we...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: April 22, 1864

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Officer of the guard. Marched again at 10 a. m. Cavalry skirmished all day. First Louisiana in advance of infantry. Cut a road through a wo...