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Showing posts with label Tupelo MS. Show all posts
Thursday, October 8, 2026

Diary of 2nd Sergeant Richard R. Hancock, Wednesday, July 30, 1862*

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Captain McKnight was sent with his squad to relieve Parrish's Company at Marietta. As it was a very rainy time we took shelter in a scho...
Monday, July 13, 2026

Diary of 2nd Sergeant Richard R. Hancock, Saturday, June 14, 1862

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Our regiment* mounted and moved out toward Marietta, at which place they halted for the night. _______________ * As I was badly poisoned w...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 11, 1864

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Hot and dry, and the famine continues. The Secretary of War intimated on Saturday that if the clerks of the bureaus would raise a fund and...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to Salmon P. Chase, August 11, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION,                   MEMPHIS, TENN., August 11, 1862. Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. SIR: Y...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: July 19, 1862

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July 19, 1862. I don't know whether I have any business sending such a document as I enclose, but guess its no difference. Two spie...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: July 17, 1862

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Camp at Rienzi , July 17, 1862. I think there is more point and policy in that General Order 92 than in any one that has yet been issu...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: June 29, 1862, 11. p.m.

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11 p. m., 29th. — There is talk among the officers that Buell with 60,000 men is en route for Atlanta, Ga., intending to occupy that city, ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: June 19, 1862

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Rienzi, Tishomingo Co., Miss., June 19, 1862. This is one of the few days that remind one of Illinois, although there are very few nigh...