Headquarters 2nd Brigade, Hilton Head, Nov. 9th, 1861. My dear Mother: It is a long, long time since I have heard from home – nearly three weeks I think since we have been blessed with news by mail, and all this time I am wondering how you are all faring in New-York. Well, when a [...]
Camp Ewing, November 9, 1861. – A wet disagreeable morning. Anticipating hasty movements – expeditions without baggage against the enemy and the like – I yesterday sent home my jottings up to this time and begin today a new book. We were yesterday expecting to use four skiffs or yawls and two boat frames built [...]
Camp Ewing, November 9, 1861. Dear Mother : – It is a rainy disagreeable November day. I have done up all the little chores required, have read the article in November number of the Atlantic Monthly on “Health in Camp,” and hope not to be interrupted until I have finished a few words to you. [...]
November 9.–General Nelson again attacked the enemy at Piketon. At about ten A. M., they made an unconditional surrender. Their loss was four hundred in killed and wounded, and by their surrender the Nationals were left with two thousand prisoners. –The Union men of East Tennessee burned a number of railroad bridges and the telegraph [...]
November 9, 1861 Major-Gen. H. W. Halleck assigned to the command of the Department of the West, and Gen. Don Carlos Buel to the Department of Kentucky.