Washington, Oct. 7. After dinner to-day we said good-bye to Dr. Bacon, now Surgeon of the 7th Connecticut, and he left in the night we suppose, with the regiment, to join the second great land and naval expedition for the southern coast.
Monday, October 7. —Capt. Tompkins very suddenly marched off to Harper’s Ferry, with the right section. Thunder storm in the evening.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1861. Went for Doct Piper this morning for Willie. He has I think only a bad cold on his lungs and will soon be well. I was on the Ave this morning, saw it filled with Cavalry for one mile. I was at the Pat office in Col James room. He is [...]
OCTOBER 7th.—Nothing of note.
Washington, D.C. Oct. 7. 1861 Brig: Genl. S. R. Curtis My dear Sir. Without prejudice, and looking to nothing but justice, and the public interest, I am greatly perplexed about Gen: Fremont: In your position, you can not but have a correct judgment in the case; and I beseech you to answer Gen. Cameron, when [...]
Head Quarters Camp of Instruction Benton Barracks (near St. Louis) Oct 7. 1861 Governor H R Gamble1 Dear Sir Yours of the 5th inst. on the subject of conflicting enrollment by States and United States Officers, is just received. When I have been informed of men brought in this camp who had been previously enrolled [...]
Camp Lovejoy, October 7th. For the last two days the troops have been leaving Jefferson City, and the densely peopled hills are bare. This morning, at seven o’clock, we began to break camp. There was no little trouble and confusion in lowering the tents and packing the wagons. It took us a long time to-day, [...]
Return of Wounded Soldiers of the Federal Army Captured at Bull Run–Scene in Hampton Roads on Board the United States Steamer ‘Louisiana’ to which they were Transferred, under a Flag of Truce, October 7th, 1861 (from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New [...]
Oct. 7. We were today mustered into the service of the United States, by Captain John M. Goodhue, U. S. A. The company is designated as Company B, and the regiment as the 25th Massachusetts volunteers. I suppose we are now stuck for three years—unless sooner shot.
Camp Lookout, Monday, October 7, 1861. Dearest:—The mails are in order again. Letters will now come promptly. On the day after I wrote you last we got all the back letters – lots of papers and dates up to October 1. One queer thing, a letter from Platt of July 31 and one from Mother [...]
Monday, 7th–I left for Davenport early this morning, riding to town with a farmer, and got back to camp at 2 o’clock. Quite a number of the boys around Allen’s Grove are in camp here as members of the Second Iowa Cavalry.
October 7th.—The heat to-day was literally intolerable, and wound up at last in a tremendous thunderstorm with violent gusts of rain. At the Legation, where Lord Lyons entertained the English visitors at dinner, the rooms were shaken by thunder claps, and the blinding lightning seemed at times to turn the well illuminated rooms into caves [...]
Quincy, Sunday, October 6, 1861 I received your letter of the 7th some ten days ago and not a word from London since; so that as I have seen no signs of trouble in the press, I presume the little flurry you there mention has passed away. In fact I cannot say I share your [...]
October 7.–Colonel Matthews, encamped with four hundred Home Guards about Twenty miles from Hermann, Missouri, was compelled to abandon his camp; he having received intelligence that a large body of rebels were marching to attack him.–N. Y. Tribune, October 9. –Capt. Michael Berry, late of the steamship Marion, was arrested in New York by detective [...]
October 7, 1861 Confederate government signs a treaty with the Cherokee Indians. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Gen. W. F. Sherman, relieved. Gen. Robert Anderson relieved of his command in Kentucky, his health not permitting him to enter on active service. Gen. Fremont and his army leave Jefferson City, Mo., in [...]