Tuesday, 7th–We kept on the march last night till 1 a. m., when we stopped in bivouac. The men were all very tired, yet were willing and anxious to go on if only they could capture Price, or even a part of his army. Leaving our bivouac at 8 o’clock this morning, we again started [...]
Tuesday, 7th. Commenced a letter to Fannie after the morning work. Went to the river and washed some shirts with Sergt. Smith, Co. K., a boy whom I like much from short acquaintance. Mail arrived about noon, letters from Fannies A. and H., Sarah Felton, Fred and George Ashman. Went to 9th Kansas surgeon to [...]
Tuesday, 7th.—Orders to be ready to move at a moment’s notice. Some cannonading at a distance. Left camp at 2 P. M. Wagons all left behind; marching back in the direction of Versailes; crossed Kentucky River at McCowans Ferry, at sundown; camped on old camping-ground. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
OCTOBER 7th.—Nothing further has been heard from Corinth. A great battle is looked for in Kentucky. All is quiet in Northern Virginia. Some 2500 Confederate prisoners arrived from the North last evening. They are on parole, and will doubtless be exchanged soon, as we have taken at least 40,000 more of the enemy’s men than [...]
October 1, 1862—Carry sundry letters to their places. Receive pay for July and August. Oct. 3—Hear from wife, at Chapel Hill. Babe is better. She went from Bladen to Chapel Hill with three children and a nurse (about one hundred miles) by private conveyance. Sunday, Oct. 5—Preach to a large, attentive audience. Fine day. Bright [...]
October 7, 1862, Savannah Republican(Georgia) As a specimen of the right spirit to animate the Southern people at the present crisis, we would mention two instances of liberality that have come to our notice, with the hope that the parties will forgive us for the liberty we take with their names: Messrs. W. H. Wiltberger [...]
October 7, 1862, The New York Herald President Lincoln’s late visit to the army of General McClellan is an incident the importance of which, we are entirely confident, will soon be made manifest in the grandest military movements and Union victories. It was neither holiday recreation nor idle curiosity that took the President on this [...]
October 7, 1862, The New York Herald HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Oct. 4, 1862. The President has to-day completed the grand review of all the troops in McClellan’sarmy. Excepting the actual appearance of the men in action, it was the most interesting, sublime and suggestive sight we have witnessed since the army was organized. [...]
October 7, 1862, The New York Herald OUR SPECIAL ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Oct. 2, 1862. ON MARYLAND AND LOUDON HEIGHTS. President Lincoln having arrived at Harper’s Ferry yesterday afternoon, and reviewed the troops on Bolivar Heights, under General Sumner, and visited the ruins of the bridges and buildings destroyed at Harper’s [...]
October 7, 1862, The New York Herald The official despatches of General Grant relative to the late battle at Corinth confirm the news which we published yesterday. They are dated from Jackson, Tenn., on Sunday, and represent that, at that time, a large portion of General Rosecrans’ forces had advanced as far as Chevalla, in [...]
October 7, 1862, Nashville Daily Union (Tennessee) We are informed that there are about seven hundred guerrillas at Lavergne, badly armed and worse dressed, whose chief business is to forage and drive off cattle. May be it would not be amiss to give these excellent gentlemen, and defenders of the South, some other employment.
October 7, 1862, The New York Herald Brigadier General Richard J. Oglesby, reported dangerously wounded, is a man of about thirty-eight years of age. He was born in Kentucky, but removed into Illinois at a very early age, and became a citizen of the latter State. He served during the Mexican war as first lieutenant [...]
October 7, 1862, Daily Times (Leavenworth, Kansas) W. F. Downs, late of Wyandot, has charge of Pomeroy’s Colonization Office in Washington. These gentlemen start for Chiriqui about the 10th inst., with a pioneer colony of negroes, about five hundred in number.
October 7, 1862, The Charleston Mercury On last Saturday afternoon a very large concourse – including many ladies – assembled on the South Bay Battery, to witness the review of the Forty Sixth Georgia Regiment, Col. COLQUITT, by Gen. BEAUREGARD. At five o’clock the General and Staff appeared upon the ground, and the review began. [...]
October 7, 1862, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) The condition of our market is getting truly deplorable. There is not a pound of salt or a bushel of corn for sale at retail, and very little meal or flour, and we are informed that all the bacon has suddenly disappeared from the market. Everything else is [...]