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Showing posts with label Surrender of Port Hudson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surrender of Port Hudson. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General William T. Sherman, July 11, 1863

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VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863.           Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Comdg. Expedition: DEAR GENERAL: Dispatches just received from Gen...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, July 27, 1863

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Had a strange letter from Senator John P. Hale, protesting against the appointment of Commodore Van Brunt to the command of the Portsmouth ...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, July 17, 1863

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At the Cabinet council Seward expressed great apprehension of a break-up of the British Ministry. I see in the papers an intimation that sh...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, July 15, 1863

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We have the back mails this morning. The papers are filled with accounts of mobs, riots, burnings, and murders in New York. There have been...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: July 12, 1863

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Whole army marched down the bayou, about four miles where they met the rebels in force. Lieutenant Koblin and myself were in command of the...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: July 8, 1863

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At 8 a. m., we were on the march for Port Hudson. Five miles on the way, an officer met us informing us that Port Hudson had surrendered an...