Tuesday, October 1.—One o’clock A. M. Orders arrived to return immediately to Seneca Mills. The left section marched at once, arriving towards day-break. At sunrise, the fifth gun went on picket duty once more. Lieut. Newton, Sergeants Hammond and Read, were with the left section. Commenced to throw up intrenchments during the night.
OCTOBER 1st.—I find that only a few hundred alien enemies departed from the country under the President’s proclamation, allowing them forty days, from the 16th of August, to make their arrangements; but under the recent order of Mr. Benjamin, if I may judge from the daily applications, there will be a large emigration. The persons [...]
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1861. Have had a hard days work moveing down our Furniture. Had six wagon loads left after our sale but I take back some articles from Mr Peck which he bid off having concluded [to] remain in the City awhile longer. We are in a very pleasant neighborhood and pleasant part of [...]
Rev. Henry Hopkins to Eliza Woolsey Howland. City Hotel Hospital, …………… Alexandria, Oct, 1861. My dear Mrs. Howland: I want to tell you how I am coming on here in my new field, for at Washington I received the impression, which it will take a long time to wear away, that you and Miss Woolsey [...]
Capture of the Propeller ‘Fanny’ In Pamlico Sound by Three Confederate Steamers while Conveying Men and Stores to the Twentieth Indiana Regiment (from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) “0n the 1st of October, 1861, Colonel Hawkins dispatched the propeller [...]
1st. My birthday (twenty)–what a contrast between this one and that of the year before. Spent the day about as usual.
Camp Sewell, October 1, 1861. – About a week ago I left Camp Scott, or Cross Lanes, and came over to General Cox’s camp on the top of Sewell Mountain. Our Secesh friends are fortifying in sight. I staid with McCook. General Cox is an even-tempered man of sound judgment, much loved by his men. [...]
Tuesday, 1st–We drew our cooking utensils and rations for five days. John Batderf, Joseph Tomlinson and I were put in as cooks for the company. We have company drill four hours a day. It seems that we are in camp this time for business. My bunk-mate is James M. Fossett, a brother of Thomas Fossett. [...]
Headquarters 79th Regt. Camp Advance, Co. K. Virginia, 1861. Dear Mother: A most delightful moonlight forbids my retiring at the usual hour to rest, so I will write and let you know that all is well – that we have had a dull week, that there has been naught to stir the sluggish blood since [...]
October 1.–The Eighth regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, commanded by Col. ____ Johnston, left Trenton for Washington.–The Fifteenth regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Christ, left Harrisburg for the seat of war. Previous to the regiment’s leaving, the regimental colors were presented by Governor Curtin, with an effective and patriotic address. Colonel Christ responded in an [...]
October 1, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Rebel camp at Charleston, Mo., broken up by Union troops. U. S. transport “Fanny” captured by two rebel steamers between Hatteras Inlet and Chicamacoffico. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863