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Showing posts with label Southern Unionists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southern Unionists. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Thursday, May 19, 1864

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Awakened by the guard at 4 a. m.; at daylight go on the street receiving a small day's ration, the fourth issue since our capture. Rain ...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Monday, May 9, 1864

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About 10 a. m., the train having come back, we got on for Lynchburg. I had a flat car next to the engine, exposed to the sun, smoke and cind...

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Tuesday, May 10, 1864

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My throat and lungs sore this morning, caused by heat and smoke of yesterday and drenching dew and chill of last night. Get rations today fo...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: June 24, 1861

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Colonel Marrow and I dined with Colonel Smith, member of the Virginia Legislature. He professes to be a Union man, but his sympathies are ev...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, May 16, 1864

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This morning Colonel Rowett moves with the command towards Florence, leaving Company H, Captain Ring, near Cedar and Cox's Islands to gu...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Wednesday, December 16, 1863

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A cold north wind is blowing all day. This evening the regiment comes in from its expedition—cold and hungry, but we see success beaming fro...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 14, 1863—Evening

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March 14, Evening. A curious incident occurred this morning which gave me a full hundred (from both regiments) sick and wounded to examine...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Brigadier-General William H. Carroll to Judah P. Benjamin, November 26, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS, Knoxville, November 26 , 1861 . Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN,           Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to report that I arri...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Saturday, November 9, 1861

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Our brigade moved back from Anderson County to the vicinity of Jacksborough. McNairy's Battalion camped six miles south of town on the C...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

William Blount Carter to Brigadier-General George H. Thomas, October 22, 1861

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MORGAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE, NEAR MONTGOMERY, October 22 , 1861 . (Received November 4.) Brigadier-General THOMAS: SIR: I reached here at ...

William Blount Carter to Brigadier-General George H. Thomas, October 27, 1861

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NEAR KINGSTON, ROANE COUNTY, TENNESSEE,           October 27 , 1861 . (Received November 4.) General THOMAS: SIR: I am now within a few ...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Colonel William B. Wood to Judah Benjamin, November 20, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS,           Knoxville, November 20 , 1861 . SIR: The rebellion in East Tennessee has been put down in some of the counties, a...

Major-General George B. McClellan to Brigadier-General Don Carlos Buell, December 3, 1861

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WASHINGTON, December 3, 1861. Brig. Gen. D.C. BUELL, Louisville: MY DEAR BUELL: I inclose two letters, which were referred to me by the P...

Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer to Lieutenant Colonel William W. Mackall, November 17, 1861

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KNOXVILLE, TENN., November 17, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL, Bowling Green, Ky.: SIR: Having blockaded the roads over the mountains n...

Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer to Lieutenant-Colonel William W. Mackall, November 20, 1861

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BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Wartburg, one mile from Montgomery, November 20, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL,           Assistant Adju...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer to Samuel Cooper, November 22, 1861

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BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,           Jamestown, Tenn., Nov . 22, 1861. General S. Cooper,           Adjutant and Inspector-General, Richmond: S...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Wednesday, October 23, 1861

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Zollicoffer moved on to, and camped for the night at, Barboursville. Two companies, A and E, of McNairy's Battalion, were sent out abo...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Dr. Joseph T. Webb to Maria Cook Webb, April 20, 1865

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[Cumberland, April 20, 1865.] We are all well. The time passes slow now that there is no work in view. The Rebels all feel disposed to qui...
Sunday, May 1, 2022

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: August 4, 1863

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Early this morning we are off for Corinth. We go into camp twelve miles from Purdy. Our comrades and we now sally forth to get our supper; w...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, May 16, 1865

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Great questions not taken up at the Cabinet. Several minor matters considered. Mr. Harlan, successor of Mr. Usher in the Department of the I...