March 22d. At ten A. M., the Albatross got under way and dropped down the river a short distance, and shelled the batteries at Warrenton, receiving in return a brisk fire from musketry and field pieces; after engaging the batteries a short time, came up and anchored ahead of us. Last night a very large [...]
Sunday, 22d–I worked all day setting up our tent, my two tent mates being on duty. General Logan’s Division started for Vicksburg today. It commenced to rain this evening.
22nd. After morning work, Sergts. Drake and Arnold and Capt. Tod and I rode down to Alton. Very pleasant. Drake is a good boy. Seems to have a heart. After dinner saw Col. Ratliff and got permission to go home three days. Oh what a happy boy. How good it will seem to see Ma [...]
March 22. The garrison here consists of companies G, Capt. Swift, and II, Capt. Sanford, of the 27th Massachusetts; company D, Capt. Howard, of the 5th Massachusetts; company C, Capt. Cliffton, of the 1st North Carolina Union volunteers, and part of a company of North Carolina cavalry. Several gunboats lying in the river. The fellows [...]
MARCH 22d.—It was thawing all night, and there is a heavy fog this morning. The snow will disappear in a few days. A very large number of slaves, said to be nearly 40,000, have been collected by the enemy on the Peninsula and at adjacent points, for the purpose, it is supposed, of cooperating with [...]
March 22, 1863, The New York Herald In a Richmond paper of the 17th instant we find sixteen advertisements for substitutes, with the condition generally attached that he must be over forty-five years of age, which shows that the population of the regular military age, between eighteen and forty-five, must be exhausted, and that the [...]
March 22, 1863, The New York Herald CONDITION OF THE SOUTH – HOW UNION PRISONERS ARE TREATED BY THE REBELS. WASHINGTON, March 21, 1863. The Union prisoners who have been released, and arrived here last night from Richmond, on the steamer State of Maine, make some interesting statements in regard to the condition of affairs [...]
March 22, 1863, The New York Herald The official report of the late conflict near Milton, Tenn., between General Hall’s brigade and the rebels, on the Liberty road, reached the War Department yesterday from General Rosecrans. We have before published the leading facts. Gen. Rosecrans says that the rebels numbered about eight or ten regiments [...]
Camp Winder, March 22, 1863. I am grateful to you for the tender interest in my health manifested in your last letter, received some days since. For the last week I have felt better than I have before this winter. I have gotten a half-bushel of dried peaches from Richmond, and, living upon these for [...]