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Showing posts with label Vicksburg Assaults. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vicksburg Assaults. Show all posts
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, Tuesday, May 26, 1863

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Still at our camps near Jackson doing absolutely nothing, living on the shortest possible commons. Had dress-parade yesterday for the first ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, May 23, 1863

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NEAR CANTON.—We have marched five miles this morning, and are now in two miles of Canton. Our force is now ten or twelve thousand strong, an...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

Major-General John A. McClernand to Edwin M. Stanton, August 24, 1863

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SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,           August 24, 1863. Hon. E. M. STANTON,          Secretary of War: On June 27, ultimo, I had the honor to addres...

Major-General John A. McClernand to Edwin M. Stanton, June 27, 1863

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SPRINGFIELD, ILL., June 27, 1863. Hon. E. M. STANTON,           Secretary of War: Under authority conferred by you in previous correspond...

Major-General John A. McClernand to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, June 27 1863

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SPRINGFIELD, ILL., June 27, 1863. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,          General-in-Chief: GENERAL: On the 4th instant I personally delivered ...

Major-General John A. McClernand to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 4, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Battle-field near Vicksburg, Miss., June 4, 1863. [Maj. Gen. U.S. GRANT:] GENERAL: What appea...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Charles A. Dana to Edwin M. Stantion, June 19, 1863—10. a.m.

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BEHIND VICKSBURG, MISS., June 19 1863 - 10 a.m.,                     VIA MEMPHIS, TENN., June 22 - 9 a.m.           (Received June 24 - 3....
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Major-General James B. McPherson to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 18, 1863

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HDQRS. 17TH ARMY CORPS, DEPT. OF THE TENNESSEE,           Near Vicksburg, Miss, June 18, 1863. Major-General GRANT, Comdg. Dept. of the Ten...

Major-General William T. Sherman to Lieutenant Colonel John A. Rawlins, June 17, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Camp on Walnut Hills, June, 17, 1863. Lieut. Col. JOHN A. RAWLINS,           Assistant Adjutan...

Major-General John A. McClernand to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, June 4, 1863

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HEADQUARTERS THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS,           Battle-field near Vicksburg, Miss., June 4, 1863. [Maj. Gen. U.S. GRANT:] GENERAL: What appe...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 25, 1863

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Burying the dead that had lain between the Union and Confederate lines for three days. Pemberton sent a flag of truce to Grant at two ...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 19, 1863

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This day beholds a cordon of steel, with rivets of brave hearts, surrounding Vicksburg. The enemy left their fortifications on the first, t...

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 ...

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 22, 1863

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Mortar from the river in front. “During the siege of Vicksburg,  sixteen thousand shells were thrown from the mortar gunboats, and nav...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Review: The Vicksburg Assaults, May 19-22, 1863

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The Vicksburg Assaults, May 19-22, 1863 Edited by Steven E. Woodworth & Charles D. Grear With “The Vicksburg Assaults: May 19...