Oct. 9, ‘61. As I told you, Dr. Bacon left either Monday night or early yesterday for Annapolis with the 7th Connecticut. They seem to have been the first ones dispatched, for yesterday others went, and, as I write, a long train of baggage and men equipped for a journey is passing down the street. [...]
Southern Watchman [Athens, Ga], October 9, 1861 Stern necessity compels us to appear before the public this week on a half sheet. It is no fault of ours. We almost “compassed sea and land” in search of paper, but could find none in the Southern Confederacy, and we were afraid to go to Doodledom after [...]
OCTOBER 9th.—Contributions of clothing, provisions, etc. are coming in large quantities; sometimes to the amount of $20,000 in a single day. Never was there such a patriotic people as ours! Their blood and their wealth are laid upon the altar of their country with enthusiasm. I must say here that the South Carolinians are the [...]
WEDNESDAY 9 Change in the weather, cool today. Saw Mr Harrington, Assistant Sec’y of the Treasury, could not see the Sec’y today. A movement of military to the other side of the River. Our forces are slowly advancing and fortifying as they go. I do not think there will be much fighting here. The Govt [...]
Head Quarters Camp of Instruction Benton Barracks Oct 9th 1861 John McCune Esq1 Prest Keokuk & St Louis Packet Co Sir I am informed by an officer of the mail service that you have reproached him for expressing Union sentiments and denouncing secession in the presence of the passengers on your boats. I wish to [...]
Tipton, October 9th. The General was in the saddle very early, and left camp before the staff was ready. I was fortunate enough to be on hand, and indulged in some excusable banter when the tardy members of our company rode up after we were a mile or two on the way. We have marched [...]
Headquarters 23d Reg’t., O. V. Inf., U. S. A., Mountain Cove, Six Miles Above Gauley Bridge, October 9, 1861. Dear Brother: – We are now near or at the point where an entrenched camp for winter quarters is to be established. It will command the main entrance to the head of the Kanawha Valley, and [...]
Camp Leslie, near Falls Church, Fairfax County, Va., Oct. 8, 1861. Friend P——s.:— In accordance with your expressed desire and my own promise, I have commenced writing to you. I intended to have written before, but an aversion to writing at all, which I have acquired in camp, is my only excuse. The inconveniences, or [...]
9th. My mother’s birthday. The Wellington Three Hundred came to camp. Somewhat indisposed. Had a good time though.
Camp Ewing, Mountain Cove, Six Miles Above Gauley Bridge, Wednesday, October 9, 1861. Dearest: – Captain Zimmerman and I have just returned from a long stroll up a most romantic mountain gorge with its rushing mountain stream. A lovely October sun, bright and genial, but not at all oppressive. We found the scattered fragments of [...]
Wednesday, 9th–Drill twice a day and dress parade at 5 p. m. New recruits are daily coming into camp.
9th.–We have remained bivouaced all day, and there is talk of our moving our camp to this place to-morrow. This will advance us another three miles in the direction of Richmond. On the 8th of August we arrived in Washington– two months ago yesterday. We are now eight miles nearer Richmond than then. At this [...]
October 9th.–A cold, gloomy day. I am laid up with the fever and ague, which visit the banks of the Potomac in autumn. It annoyed me the more because General McClellan is making a reconnaissance to-day towards Lewinsville, with 10,000 men. A gentleman from the War Department visited me to-day, and gave me scanty hopes [...]
October 9.–Twelve hundred men of the Confederate forces near Pensacola, landed on Santa Rosa Island, four miles from Fort Pickens, at two o’clock A. M., under command of the Confederate General Anderson, and attacked the camp of the Sixth regiment New York Volunteers, (Wilson’s Zouaves.) Wilson’s men were surprised, and driven out of a portion [...]
October 9, 1861 Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Rebels attack Santa Rosa Island, Fla., and are repulsed by regulars and Wilson’s Zouaves. Advance of the Union lines beyond the Potomac; Lewinsville occupied. Charter election in Baltimore—no disturbance by the secessionists. All [...]