Advance of General Rosecrans’s Division through the Forests of Laurel Hill to Attack the Confederate Intrenchments at Rich Mountain, July 11, 1861 “General McClellan’s plan for attacking the Confederates under General Garnett in Western Virginia and driving them beyond the Alleghenies involved the surprise of a large body strongly intrenched at Rich Mountain, in a [...]

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SUNDAY 14 This has been a cool day, almost too cold for comfort. Troops have been going over the River today and others leave early tomorrow morning. Something will be done soon. I went out to church with wife, heard Chaplin of the 2nd N H Reg’t. His Regt leave[s] in the morning for Virginia. [...]

July 14th.–Mr. Chesnut remained closeted with the President and General Lee all the afternoon. The news does not seem pleasant. At least, he is not inclined to tell me any of it. He satisfied himself with telling me how sensible and soldierly this handsome General Lee is. General Lee’s military sagacity was also his theme. [...]

JULY 14th.—The Secretary is sick again. He has been recommended by his physician to spend some days in the country; and to-morrow he will leave with his family. What will be the consequence?

Sunday, July 14.—Wind still fresh, with a heavy sea; making 5 knots under sail, with the wind about a point free. Did not muster the crew, but allowed them to rest. No sail seen. I am getting no better. Have been confined nearly all day to my hammock with nausea and debility and pain in [...]

July 14th.–At six o’clock this morning the steamer arrived at the wharf under the walls of Fortress Monroe, which presented a very different appearance from the quiet of its aspect when first I saw it, some months ago. Camps spread around it, the parapets lined with sentries, guns looking out towards the land, lighters and [...]

Camp Wright, Hulton, Penm., July 14, 1861. Dear Sister L.:– I spent the morning of the Fourth in writing letters. In the afternoon Colonel Grant read the Declaration of Independence, and Captain Porter delivered an oration to the soldiers and citizens in a neighboring grove, after which we had a review of the four regiments [...]

–Advices were received at New York, that the privateer Sumter arrived at Cienfuegos, Cuba, on the 6th of July, carrying in as prizes the brigs Cuba, Machias, Naiad, Albert Adams, Ben Dunning, and the barks West Wind, and Louisa Kilham. She also fell in with the ship Golden Rocket off the Isle of Pines, which [...]

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 [...]

FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1861. A pleasant cool day and apparently much enjoyed by all. A great many soldiers moveing, some just coming into the City, some going into camp back of the City, and some marching for Virginia. The Union Regt Col Slocum, Ny Y [sic] 27th Regt Volunteers, came in last night and occupy [...]

JULY 12th.—The colonel’s temper is as variable as an April day—now all smiles and sunshine, but by-and-by a cloud takes all away. He becomes impatient with a long-winded story, told by some business applicant—and storms whenever any one asks him if the Secretary is in. To-day, for the first time, I detected a smile on [...]

Friday, July 12,—Heavy head wind and sea, and the steamer laboring and pitching into it and scarcely making four knots. A serious drawback, as we are consuming our limited supply of fuel and making no progress. Thick weather and squalls of rain. Still confined to my cabin. No sail seen.

July 12th.–There are rumours that the Federals, under Brigadier M’Clellan, who have advanced into Western Virginia, have gained some successes; but so far it seems to have no larger dimensions than the onward raid of one clan against another in the Highlands. And whence do rumours come? From Government departments, which, like so many Danaes [...]

–Last night, after the battle at Rich Mountain, Colonel Pegram, who was in command, withdrew from the fort near Beverly, leaving behind six guns, a largo number of horses,wagons, and camp equipage.–(Doc. 85.) –J. P. Benjamin, Attorney-General of the Confederate States of America, issued a circular of instruction to Marshals in relation to prisoners of [...]

July 12, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Union troops under McClellan took possession of Beverly, Va.; Col. Pegram surrendered with his entire force. Skirmish at Newport News, Va. Skirmish at Barboursville, Wa. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, [...]

The Arkansas True Democrat, Little Rock, Arkansas, July 11, 1861