SATURDAY 13 A cool rainy day, woolen clothes comfortable. In the office all day as usual, a crowd of soldiers in the office every day. Troops are pushing over the River now rapidly, and a crisis appears to be approaching. We have just been looking at the signal lights at the camps over the river [...]
JULY 13th.—The Secretary made peace yesterday between the general and the colonel, or a duel might have transpired. To-day the colonel carried into the Secretary a number of applications for commissions as surgeons. Among the applicants were some of the colonel’s friends. He returned soon after in a rage, slamming the door after him, and [...]
Saturday, July 13.—Blowing a moderate gale of wind, with a very heavy head sea. We made no progress at all during the last night. In this state of things, I have been obliged to change my intention, which was to go to Barbados. We can not make the distance with our fuel. I therefore, caused [...]
RICHMOND, Va., July 13, 1861.–Now we feel safe and comfortable. We can not be flanked. Mr. Preston met us at Warrenton. Mr. Chesnut doubtless had too many spies to receive from Washington, galloping in with the exact numbers of the enemy done up in their back hair. Wade Hampton is here; Doctor Nott also–Nott and [...]
Battle of Corrick’s Ford, between the Troops of General McClellan’s Command, under General Morris, and the Confederates under General Garnett, July 13th, 1861 (from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie,New York, 1895) “After a long march through drenching rain, the Federal troops under [...]
July 13th.–I have had a long day’s ride through the camps of the various regiments across the Potomac, and at this side of it, which the weather did not render very agreeable to myself or the poor hack that I had hired for the day, till my American Quartermaine gets me a decent mount. I [...]
–John B. Clark, member of the House of Representatives from Missouri, was expelled from that body, having been found in arms against the United States Government, and in active part with the rebels under Governor Jackson, in the late battle of Booneville, Missouri. –Joseph Holt addressed the citizens of Louisville, Ky., this day. His speech [...]
July 13, 1861Battle of Corrick’s Ford. While directing his rear guard, General Robert Garnett is shot and dies minutes later. He is the first general to die during the Civil WarA Chronological History of the Civil War in America1Battle of Carrickford, Wa. (Morris v. Garnett): rebels defeated and Gen. Garnett killed. Rebel power in Western [...]