Thursday, 3d–It rained again all day, and although our camp is on high ground, on the bluff just east of town, yet it is a jelly of mud. It couldn’t be otherwise with three or four thousand men tramping over it.
THURSDAY 3 This has been a hot day for the season. M. at 86 in the middle of the day. It has passed away without any particular incident occurring. Met John T McKenzie on the Ave. He agreed to meet me at Willards this evening, but he probably took the 6 o’clock train, as I [...]
OCTOBER 3d.—The President not having taken any steps in the matter, I have no alternative but to execute the order of the Secretary.
Thursday, October 3.—Left the picket line again, returned to Camp Jackson, started for Darnestown by six o’clock, and arrived there by eight o’clock P. M. Thus ended our stay at Seneca Mills, the most pleasant period of our three years service. Vegetables and fruit, chickens and pigs, were plenty, for we owned the whole plantation [...]
Up Gauley River, Camp Sewell, October 3, 1861. Dear Uncle: – I should have written you, if I had known where you were. We are in the presence of a large force of the enemy, much stronger than we are, but the mud and floods have pretty much ended this campaign. Both the enemy [...]
Camp Sewell, October 3, 1861. Dearest: – This is a pleasant morning. I yesterday finished the work of a court-martial here; am now in my own tent with my regiment “at home.” It does seem like home. I have washed and dressed myself, and having nothing to do I hope to be able today to [...]
October 3rd.–In Washington once more–all the world laughing at the pump and the wooden guns at Munson’s Hill, but angry withal because McClellan should be so befooled as they considered it, by the Confederates. The fact is McClellan was not prepared to move, and therefore not disposed to hazard a general engagement, which he might [...]
October 3.–The Memphis Argus of to-day contains the following proclamation by Thomas O. Moore, Governor of Louisiana: “Concurring entirely in the views expressed by the cotton factors of New Orleans, in the annexed communication and petition from business men here, praying that no cotton be sent to New Orleans during the existence of the blockade, [...]
October 3, 1861 Battle of Greenbriar WV A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Battle at Greenbrier, Va.; rebels defeated after an hour’s fighting, and a large number of cattle and horses taken by the U. S. troops. Ex-Street Commissioner of New York, Gustavus W. Smith, appointed a brig.-general in the rebel army. [...]