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Showing posts with label Yazoo City MS. Show all posts
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, May 31, 1863—Noon

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Yesterday morning the brigade left Canton, heading northwest. We made twenty miles and encamped for the night in a grove convenient to water...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, June 1, 1863

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Camp near Yazoo City.—The division arrived here after dark last night. The troops suffered greatly from heat, thirst, and fatigue. Two of ou...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, June 6, 1863

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Left our camp yesterday, and moved to our present stoping place, four miles southwest of Yazoo City. We are on half rations of corn bread an...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, June 9, 1863

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Still at our camp of the 6th inst., with plenty of wood and abundance of good spring and lake water; no improvement in the rations. Yesterda...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, June 14, 1863

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Left camp in the vicinity of Yazoo yesterday morning at daylight, and after a hard day's march nearly due south, arrived at the Big Blac...

Diary of Private W. J. Davidson, June 16, 1863

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On Sunday evening left Big Black and moved to Church, occupying our old camping ground of May 20th, where we are resting and waiting orders....
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Major-General Ulyssess S. Grant to Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks, July 11, 1863

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VICKSBURG, MISS., July 11, 1863. Maj. Gen. N. P. BANKS, Comdg. Department of the Gulf: GENERAL: It is with pleasure I congratulate you up...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Francis J. Herron, July 14, 1863

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HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENN., Vicksburg, Miss., July 14 , 1863 . Major-General HERRON,  Comdg. Yazoo Expedition: GENERAL: You may remain in...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 25, 1864

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A bright and beautiful day; southern breezes. No reliable war news; but there are rumors that our victory at Shreveport was a great one. N...