Sunday, 12th–We started early this morning and marching thirty miles arrived at Corinth just at dark. The soldiers are all very tired and worn, having marched about sixty-five miles over a heavy road in two days. We came into Corinth over the ground we had fought over in the battle of October 3d and 4th. [...]
Sunday, 12th. Cleaned my revolver and dried my cartridges. Indians had preaching by their Chaplain. Seemed good to hear singing and preaching even in an unknown tongue. Took a bundle of letters to headquarters. Smith went with me, a right good fellow. Went to spring and bathed.
Sunday 12th.—Remained still to-day. 6 P. M., drew four days’ rations to-day; flour and pickled pork. Wagons have not come with the cooking vessels; our mess had half-gallon bucket and one copper plate; fried out grease in the plate and made up dough in the half-gallon bucket; baked part in the ashes and part wound [...]
October 12, 1862, Nashville Dispatch (Tennessee) To the Editor of the Nashville Dispatch. In this cold and inclement “spell” of weather, with the prospect of a severe winter just ahead of us, the question is asked by every one, “How are we to get fuel?” With no earthly chance of procuring coal at present, if [...]
October 12, 1862, Nashville Daily Union (Tennessee) There will be an immense amount of suffering in this city, the coming winter, if some provision is not speedily made for procuring fuel. The poor, especially, will be in a sad condition, if some measure is not adopted to procure a supply of wood. It is thought [...]
October 12, 1862, The New York Herald Our Jackson Correspondence. JACKSON, Tenn., Oct. 6, 1862. A few moments after the mail left today a despatch was received by Gen. Grant, from Gen. Rosecrans, announcing the most complete and overwhelming defeat of the rebels at the Hatchie, he, Rosecrans, having come up and attacked them in [...]
Bunker Hill, Va., October 12,1862. It has not been three months since I left home. I can hardly realize that it has been so long, the time has passed so rapidly. During this period I have had the pleasure of participating in what history will record as the most astonishing expeditions of the war, [...]