Camp Ewing, November 10 (Sunday night late), 1861. Dearest: – I have just returned from a hard day’s work examining the romantic mountain gorge of New River which we are preparing to cross, but which I suspect we shall not cross. A glorious day – exciting, and delightfully spent. Got your letter by Dr. Clendenin [...]
Boston, November 10, 1861 I am very anxious to hear news from Europe, for I cannot believe that it was my “letter” which caused you “a sleepless night.” I fear the despatches had something to do with it. In most perfect confidence, will you tell me, does Seward want or intend to make a foreign [...]
Camp Ewing, November 10, 1861. Sunday morning. – I am officer of the day today and interested in the weather. It stopped raining towards evening yesterday. It is foggy and damp this morning–will probably be pleasant during the day. I have to visit all the pickets; the stations are ten or twelve in number and [...]
November 10.–Captain Gillespie’s cavalry surrounded a body of Lincolnites in Paw Paw Hollow, Sevier County, Tenn., and captured twenty-five of them.–Knoxville Register, Nov. 11. –Major-general Halleck, lately arrived from California, was appointed to the command of the Military Department of the West, in place of General Fremont, and General Buell, of Ohio, an efficient army [...]